Friday 6/4/21
Celebrate National Clean Beauty, Old Maid's, Cheese, Cognac, Hug Your Cat, and Doughnut Day.
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I really have never understood art. An Italian artist sold an invisible sculpture at auction for $18,000. The buyer will receive a certificate of authentication signed by the artist, but the sculpture itself is "immaterial," meaning that it does not actually exist. The artist, Salvatore Garau, has reportedly instructed the buyer to display the sculpture in an area that is about 5 ft. long by 5 ft. wide.
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The colors you wear account for 62-90% of someone's first impression. A recent study showed that people who wear brighter colors tend to make better first impressions.
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Polygon.com has an article about the greatest achievements in dumb internet video. And there are some of my favorites in here. So give yourself some time and settle in for stupid hilarious videos. (some may make you scratch your head.) Some of my favorites included here are Shoes, He-Man's What's Going On, How Animals Eat Their Food, and Charlie The Unicorn (spent an entire summer going "ring ring").
So what's missing..what dumb videos could you watch over and over?
https://www.polygon.com/22417321/viral-videos-flash-youtube-all-time
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If you are of a certain age, we learned multiplication, words, and even how a bill became a law on School House Rocks. Now, A delightful new trailer is here for "We the People," an animated musical show set to air on Netflix, executive produced by former President Barack and Michelle Obama.
"The show combines music and animation to educate a new generation of young Americans about the power of the people," a description for the show reads.
"We the People" will feature a series of 10 music videos that cover a range of civics lessons tailored toward young people. Artists included in the series are H.E.R., Janelle Monáe, Brandi Carlile, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Adam Lambert, Cordae, Bebe Rexha, KYLE, Andra Day and poet Amanda Gorman. Watch for the premiere on July 4th.
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F. Lee Bailey, the celebrity attorney who defended O.J. Simpson, Patricia Hearst and the alleged Boston Strangler, but whose legal career halted when he was disbarred in two states, has died, a former colleague said Thursday. He was 87.
In a legal career that lasted more than four decades, Bailey was seen as arrogant, egocentric and contemptuous of authority. But he was also acknowledged as bold, brilliant, meticulous and tireless in the defense of his clients.
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One in five Americans say they've banned a specific board game from their home, because things can get too heated. And the game that causes the most fights is....Monopoly. followed by Uno, Sorry, Scrabble, and Jenga. Here are a few more stats from a new survey on game night competitiveness.
1. One in nine people said they've seen a physical fight break out over a game before.
2. The most common things that cause board game fights are someone quitting because they're losing, and accusing someone else of cheating.
3. 22% of us have banned or stopped inviting a specific person to game night.
4. Just over one in eight people admit they're usually the one who causes drama.
5. And 75% of people said they like game nights in general, but 41% specifically said they really enjoy winning.
The poll also found the most popular game categories are: Board games, card games, dice games like Yahtzee, and party games like charades.
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