6/22/26 - Pizza, Bad Driving, and Job Hugging
- bribriny
- 1 day ago
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Thursday 6/11/26
Celebrate:
Corn on the Cob Day
Cousteau Day
King Kamehameha Day
National German Chocolate Cake Day
National Making Life Beautiful Day
Pizza Margherita Day
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Pizza check in!!!! According to a 2026 survey:
• Pizza is a $45 billion industry in the U.S. with 3 billion pizzas sold per year.
• 93 percent of Americans eat at least one pizza per month.
• Friday night is the biggest night of the week for eating pizza.
• 36 percent of all pizza orders get pepperoni on their pizza.
• The least favorite pizza topping is anchovies.
• Americans eat about 100 acres of pizza each day, or about 350 slices per second.
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Yesterday was National Iced Tea Day (good day for it)
It makes up roughly 85% of all tea consumed in America.
The breakdown between regular and sweet tea is Southern. They tend to default to Sweet Tea and it's deeply intertwined with Southern Traditions and part of othe local cuisine.
Dolly Parton’s character in the movie “Sweet Magnolias” refer to sweet tea as the “house wine of the South."
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Some of you are downright distracted and a little bit disgusting in the car!
• 15 percent of U.S. drivers admit to applying makeup and 17.5 percent admit to grooming or doing their hair while driving.
• 2 percent to 3 percent of U.S. drivers admit to shaving while driving.
• 6 percent of U.S. drivers admit to clipping their fingernails while driving. (what..no toe nails? You would if you could bend that way!)
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(Knocking) Penny, Penny, Penny......
Kaley Cuoco's family is getting a little bigger!
The Big Bang Theory and The Flight Attendant actress is expecting her second baby.
They have a 3 year old daughter Matilda.
The family of three are smiling in front of a big, rainbow sprinkle-covered cake, which read "It's a...." A bit of the cake was missing, revealing a pink interior.
Read more from People here.
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A big boo to not allowing a harmless tradition!
A bizarre traditional rite of passage has completely upended a high school sports season in Massachusetts. At Ipswich High School, graduating seniors have historically celebrated by lighting up cigars after the ceremony. Knowing that real tobacco violates the state's athletic association rules, several members of the boys' varsity lacrosse team celebrated using fake, homemade imitation cigars instead. Despite the props being entirely non-tobacco fakes, school officials ruled they still violated the spirit of the policy.1 The team was hit with a wave of suspensions, leaving them without enough eligible players and forcing a mandatory forfeit in the state semifinal match.
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A massive labor trend called "job hugging" has taken hold, where employees are firmly clinging to their current roles—not out of corporate loyalty, but out of a strict desire for economic stability over career advancement.
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Seen on treads
Pittsburgh Scanner: Mt. Washington. Boggs Ave. Caller claims that their neighbor has a pet tiger, and it's currently outside on the balcony.
Follow up - After a cautious approach, it ended up being a fat house cat.
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