Friday 6/16/23
Celebrate:
Fresh Veggies Day
National Day of Prayer for Law Enforcement Officers
National Flip Flop Day
National Fudge Day
National Take Back the Lunch Break Day
National Vinegar Day
No Orange Clothes Day
Ugliest Dog Day
Wish Fulfillment Day
Work at Home Father's Day
World Sea Turtle Day
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Big movie weekend with 3 new movies.
Elemental - The latest Disney/Pixar Movie
The Flash - DC's latest offering with none other Michael Keaton as Batman (Ben Affleck too.)
The Blackening - A comedy/horror movie.
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John Romita Sr., the revered comic book artist who co-created Marvel characters including Wolverine, the Punisher, and Mary Jane Watson, has died. He was 93.
n 1966, Romita began a five-year run working with Marvel editor-in-chief Stan Lee on The Amazing Spider-Man. He took over for artist Steve Ditko, who had created the famed webslinger with Lee in 1961 before leaving in a spat with the comic book legend.
Romita’s run on Spider-Man saw the introduction of a number of the property’s most memorable characters, including Spidey love interest Mary Jane Watson and crime boss Kingpin; it was during Romita’s time as artist that Spider-Man overtook Fantastic Four to become Marvel’s top-seller, with the masked man becoming the face of the company.
He contributed to the design of characters including Luke Cage, the Punisher and Wolverine.
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I love the guardian.com's take on this. Quote - Kairan Quazi is years away from legally being able to watch an R-rated movie at the theater by himself or buy a drink at the bar, but he’s about to get a college degree and start a job at SpaceX. He's 14.
He's not the youngest graduate in Santa Clara University's history, but joins a short list of people how many have graduated college as kids.
Oldest.org, a culture and history website, maintains a list of 10 of the youngest ever college graduates. Quazi is about the same age as numbers six through nine on that list.
#1 on the list was Michael Kearney who graduated at 10 Years and 4 Months in 1994.
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Foodrepublic.com says according to a 2016 study published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, water isn't the best drink for hydration — at least in terms of long-term bodily fluid balance. No, Gatorade isn't either. The answer is actually kind of shocking: it's milk. Both skim and whole milk actually proved more hydrating than water, even with results adjusted due to the drink's inherent water content.
Hydration involves not just fluid balance, but also retention; meaning the beverage's benefits aren't quickly lost due to urination. Nutrients in milk like fat, lactose, and sodium contribute to its ability to stay in the body longer, and thus provide more hydration. Electrolytes.
Orange juice proves hydrating as well.
Sodas, Coffee, and Teas, hydrate in the short term because the caffeine has diuretic qualities.
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Italians are crying over the skyrocketing pasta prices.
They have had enough after the cost of the staple of every Italian table soared by twice the rate of inflation. One consumer advocate group is calling for a weeklong national pasta strike starting June 22.
By the way, U.S. food prices rose 7.7% in April from a year earlier, 8.2% in Japan and 9.1% in Canada. They hit 19% in the U.K.
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There's a new hack to get lower costs for air travel.
It's called Skip-lagging. It's when you book a flight that has a connection—but your true destination is that connection city. You simply never arrive for the second portion of your planned journey. For example, say you are looking to get from Denver to Las Vegas. You notice that there are actually flights from Denver to Los Angeles that are cheaper than a direct flight to Vegas—and there's actually a connection in Vegas for the LA flight.
So, by skiplagging, you'll book the flight from Denver to LA, which is cheaper than the flight from Denver to Vegas. When you arrive in Vegas for your flight connection to LA, you simply don't get on the flight.
This hack can save you anywhere from $50 to a couple hundred dollars, depending on your destination.
Round trip isn't an option since because airlines will cancel return flights for passengers who miss any part of their departing flight.
So far there are a few lawsuits with airlines suing people who use the hack.
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Do you like a nice smooth flight with little turbulence? Forget it!!!
Scientists at Reading University in the UK found that severe turbulence had increased 55% between 1979 and 2020 on a typically busy North Atlantic route.
They put the increase down to changes in wind speed at high altitudes due to warmer air from carbon emissions.
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Olivia Rodrigo is getting set to drop a new album. She has revealed she's dropping a song called "Vampire" on June 30th, her first new music since her debut album "Sour" in 2021. We are still waiting on word of an album date.
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If a cop suspects a drunk driver, they're looking for the classic signs: Bloodshot or watery eyes . . . slurred speech . . . the smell of booze on their breath . . . and if they're wearing a BEER CAN COSTUME.
Cinco de Mayo this year, a deputy in Kansas pulled over a car that seemed to be driving erratically, and when he walked up to the driver, he saw that the guy was wearing a full-body Bud Light can costume.
The driver failed a field sobriety test, and was placed under arrest for DUI.
The police department posted an amusing photo of the guy on Facebook, and noted that "suspects are innocent until proven guilty."
The beer can costume had holes for the guy's arms and feet but it doesn't sound like he was charged with having an OPEN CONTAINER.
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A Facebook group called Random Acts of Crochet Kindness has over 240,000 members. And they're in the news because all they do is knit or crochet funny items, then leave them out in public for random people to find.
Here's an example: Someone recently crocheted a little potato character with eyes and a mouth, and put him in a bag with a note that said, "You found a positive potato!"
They added a second note that said, "I may be a tiny potato, but I believe in you. You've got this!"
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Today's Useless Fact of the Day - There's no documented case in history of a pirate making a treasure map.
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