6/26/26 - The Sun, A (Un) Convenience Store, and Your ATM Pin
- bribriny
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Friday 6/26/26
Celebrate:
Beautician's Day
Forgiveness Day
International Day in Support of Victims of Torture
National Chocolate Pudding Day
National Coconut Day
National Cream Tea Day
National Food Truck Day
Take Your Dog to Work Day
Tropical Cocktails Day
National Barcode Day - The first product to have a barcode was a 10-pack of Wrigley's Juicy Fruit gum, which was scanned today in 1974, at a supermarket in Troy, Ohio
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Saturday 6/27/26
Happy Birthday To You Day
Bartender and Mixologist Day
Decide to Be Married Day
Global Smurfs Day
Great American Campout
Great American Picnic Day
Helen Keller Day
Industrial Workers of the World Day
International Ragweed Day
National Bingo Day
National Celebrate Your Marriage Day
National Ice Cream Cake Day
National Indian Pudding Day
National Mural Day
National Onion Day
National Orange Blossom Day
Sunglasses Day
Sunday 6/28/28
America's Kids Day
Descendants' Day
Insurance Awareness Day
International Body Piercing Day
INTERNATIONAL CAPS LOCK DAY
Log Cabin Day
National Ceviche Day
National Foodie Day
National Tapioca Day
Paul Bunyan Day
Tau Day - it's a math thing!
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Supergirl - Action movie from the new DC Universe starring Milly Alcock Matthias Schoenaerts, Jason Momoa, David Krumholtz, Emily Beecham, and Eve Ridley.
jackass: best and last - they are back! Johnny Knoxville, Bam Margera, Steve-O, Chris Pontius, Jeff Tremaine, Wee Man, and Dave England.
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One day, many billions of years in the future, the Sun will no longer be the life-nourishing star it is now. Once it runs out of hydrogen to fuse at its core, it will swell into a red giant, with its plasma expanding to engulf the orbits of Mercury and Venus.
You would think that the Earth would be in there too, but a new study says different.'
Enter the science that I won't get into, but there you go! Good, right?
This doesn’t mean it will be all sunshine and rainbows on our future planet, however.
Actually, it will be all sunshine… even though Earth won't have been swallowed up by our expanding star, the swollen Sun will scorch its surface, making it uninhabitable.
So don't make plans...
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There is a convenience store floating on Lake Ontario right now, and it’s fully stocked. Well, we say "convenient", but that's definitely not the case. Called Global Convenience, it's a new artwork moored at Harbour Square Park Basin on Toronto's waterfront, moving one of the most ordinary spaces in any city – the corner shop – onto the water, filling it from floor to ceiling, yet leaving it deliberately inaccessible.
Part sculpture, part shared memory, it is built around themes of arrival, daily ritual and migration.
Yep, it's there for the World Cup..so..weirdness!
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Milk is white, and butter is made from milk, but butter is … yellow?
Food scientist Bryan Quoc Le, author of 150 Food Science Questions Answered, has the answer.
It’s all about the cow’s diet. “There are certain fat-soluble compounds known as carotenoids that are transferred from the grass the cow eats to the butter that is made from the milk."
It comes down to fat content. Carotenoids are fat-soluble, which means they are essentially suspended in the fat in the milk. “The concentration of fat in milk is fairly low, about 3%, and that fat is evenly suspended throughout the milk. The result is that the amount of carotenoids in the milk isn’t sufficient to create the color,” Le explains. But when the milk is churned into butter, the fat becomes highly concentrated. “Butter is 80% to 85% fat, so the carotenoid concentration is about 28 times higher in butter than in milk. So there is a high enough level to cause a change in color and appearance.”
Read more here.
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What's an automatic green flag when you visit someone's home?
A Clean Toilet
Happy Pets
Lots of plants, especially healthy ones
Books that look read not just displayed
Pets in the home but no pet smells
Their decor reveals something about their taste and character, and isn’t just generic “art” that could belong in any staged home.
They offer you a drink within 30seconds of walking in.
Good lighting. Some people live like cave trolls.
When I see that they tried to clean up before my arrival. Like not “pristine” clean, but at least “vacuum and put away most clutter so I can at least sit down” clean.
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Today’s Useless Fact of the Day - The world’s first ATM was installed at a Barclays Bank in Enfield, North London. The very first person to use it was actor Reg Varney, who was famous for playing a bus driver on a popular sitcom.
The inventor of the ATM originally wanted the PIN to be six digits, but his wife told him she could only ever remember four. That is why your bank card uses a 4-digit PIN today!
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