Wednesday 6/5/24
Celebrate:
Apple II Day
Festival of Popular Delusions Day
Global Running Day
Hot Air Balloon Day
National Attitude Day
National Gingerbread Day
National Ketchup Day
National Tailors' Day
National Veggie Burger Day
Sausage Roll Day
World Environment Day
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Now your 4 legged friends can fly!!! Bark Air. "Finally, dogs can fly. We're here to revolutionize flying for dogs. A 100% totally real airline for dogs.
We built our flight experience for dogs first, from the ground up.
The cabin will be prepped with calming aids such as: pheromone, music, warm lavender scented refreshment towels, and other comforts to help each dog feel settled. Our concierge will also have a 'just in case' bag filled with calming treats, leashes, poop bags, and more will be provided at the gate. Once onboard, dogs will be served their beverage of choice (water, bone broth, you name it.) In addition, a variety of BARK-branded treats, snacks, and surprises will be served throughout the flight experience.
Bottom Line: No dog should fly in a crate. To illustrate this, we made our CEO fly in one for our inaugural flight instead.
And humans..remember not to act up or you'll get swatted with a newspaper.
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Let's talk soda. What is the clear leader in sodas?
Coca-Cola has been #1 for decades.
Who's #2?
If you said Pepsi, you were right but not anymore.
Dr. Pepper has swooped in and taken the title as America's #2 soft drink.
There are two reasons: The steady decline of Pepsi over the past 20 years . . . and the increased popularity of Dr. Pepper, partially thanks to TikTok and Gen Z.
Back in 2004, Dr. Pepper was tied with Sprite in sixth place.
Sprite is also set to surpass Pepsi in the next few years.
Dr. Pepper is one of the oldest soda brands . . . older than BOTH Coca-Cola and Pepsi. It was invented in 1885 by Charles Alderton, a pharmacist and soda-fountain operator. His syrup concoction combined 23 flavors, including cherry and vanilla, along with other fruits and spices.
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A mom who works as a pediatric operating room nurse posted a list of the top five things she'd never let her kids do, because they're just too risky and she's seen too much fallout.
The last three are even more important as we get into summer. Here are the five things she won't let her kids do.
1. Go to a sleepover unless she knows every single person there. She's seen too many cases of abuse and wouldn't risk it.
2. Ride in the car without a seatbelt, even for a few minutes. She's seen crashes where one kid one was buckled up, and another wasn't. Without a seatbelt or car seat, the injuries are always much more serious.
3. Go swimming unless she's there. She doesn't trust anyone else to keep an eye on her younger kids, because the stakes are just too high.
4. Use explosive fireworks. She's seen too many injuries to fingers or worse.
5. Sit on a riding mower. Specifically, no riding on Dad's lap. It makes for a cute photo. But she's seen serious, life-altering injuries when kids fall off.
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The hot new drink for summer is a shot with a dead CICADA in it.
A place in Chicago called Noon Whistle Brewing is serving cicada-infused shots of Chicago's famous "malört" . . . a wormwood liqueur that's been compared to "citrus-flavored gasoline." That's BEFORE you add the cicada.
They dump a bunch of dead cicadas in the bottle, so they're infused with all that malörty goodness. Then they pour you a shot and toss a cicada in the glass.
They claim the natural flavor of the cicadas adds a lot . . . and that it's "reminiscent of succulent lobster."
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Maybe Laser, Zap, Hawk, Turbo, Nitro, Ice, and the rest are coming back!
A reboot of the competition series "American Gladiators" is in the works for Prime Video. There's currently a nationwide search for contestants to take on professional gladiators in the arena.
Fans of the show will recognize the return of classic challenges like "The Eliminator" and "Hang Tough", but there'll be new games, too.
The original series ran from 1989 to 1996, then it was revived for two seasons in 2008.
There's no word when the series will air, or who will host.
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Hidden Valley Ranch partnered with the meal-delivery service Hello Fresh for new FLIGHTS of ranch dressing you can order through the mail.
They're a limited-time-only thing. They sold the first round of kits yesterday and the second round drops next Monday at HelloFreshRanchFlight.com.
For $35, you get four types of ranch dressing to taste-test, plus a bunch of snacks for dipping. Here are the names of the four different ranches:
All Bay Long: Ranch mixed with Old Bay Seasoning.
GoGoGochujang: (go-go-GO-choo-jayng) Ranch with garlic powder and red chili paste. (Gochujang is a chili paste used in Korean food.)
Goucho Rancho: Southwest seasoning and chipotle powder.
Frankenranch: Ranch mixed with Frank's Red Hot.
They did a poll that found 37% of fans have eaten or sipped on straight ranch before. So you also get a plastic flask specifically meant to hold ranch dressing.
The poll also found 26% of people have used ranch on an "unexpected food." 10% have dipped fruit in it . . . 5% have used it on a dessert . . . and 5% have dipped a Pop Tart in ranch before. (which flavor would work?)
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If you're looking for a fun road trip this summer, a new attraction just opened in the small town of Williams, Arizona on Route 66.
Most people are on their way to The Grand Canyon but stop off at the world's largest POOP museum....fossilized dinosaur poop.
The term for fossilized feces is coprolite. (shouldn't it be craprolite?) They've got around 8,000 pieces in their collection, including the largest ever found . . . a two-foot-long beauty that they think belonged to a T-rex.
The museum is free. So if you're passing through Williams, it won't cost you anything. Just getting a picture in front is reason enough to stop, because it's got the perfect name.
The guy who opened it named it The Poozeum.
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Today’s Useless Fact of the Day - There's only one town in the world with TWO exclamation points in its name: It's "Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha!" in Quebec, Canada.
Ha! Ha! (pronounced ah-ah) means obstacle, which could refer to the 40 Kilimator Lake and was seen as an obstacle to early explorers.
Westward Ho! in Devon England is the other.
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