Tuesday 7/19/22
Celebrate:
Flight Attendant Safety Professionals' Day
International Retainer Day
National Daiquiri Day
National Flitch Day - A flitch is a measurement for bacon. It is half or one side of a pig and is now known as a slab in the United States.
National Raspberry Cake Day
National Words with Friends Day
New Friends Day
Stick Out Your Tongue Day
World Product Day
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When you're feeling nauseated, things can go two ways from there: You either throw up, or you don't. And in most cases, I'd guess you'd prefer NOT to throw up.
There are some hacks for beating nausea that have gone viral on TikTok recently. And doctors evaluated them to figure out which ones actually WILL help you avoid throwing up and which won't.
Here are three surprise tricks that just might stop your nausea:
1. Smelling rubbing alcohol. There's isopropyl ethanol in rubbing alcohol, which can help relieve nausea.
2. Hold your tongue on the roof of your mouth, then press your thumb on the center of your forehead for 20 seconds. This move can clear your sinuses and help relieve your nauseated feeling.
3. Hum. Believe it or not, humming can help you beat nausea. One doctor said, quote, "By controlling and regulating your breathing [through humming] it helps you to relax. It's actually very difficult to gag and hum at the same time."
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Craig McCracken is coming home. The talented animator is returning to Hanna-Barbera Studios to helm reboots of two shows he created for Cartoon Network decades ago: The Powerpuff Girls and Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends.
This new animated Powerpuff Girls reboot will "revisit and expand upon the world of the original series," with Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup facing off against villains both familiar and new.
The Foster's reboot will be decidedly different than the original. This one will be aimed at preschool viewers, starring a new crop of preschool-age imaginary friends. But the studio promises the new characters are "just as silly and playful" as the original imaginary friends like Bloo and Wilt.
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988 is the new number to call or text to reach the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline for mental health crises. Before Saturday’s change, the dialing code to reach the lifeline was 1-800-273-TALK, which those in need can still use during the transition to 988. The simpler three-digit number is also meant to help people much faster than 911, which generally connects callers to law enforcement rather than mental health professionals. Last year, the lifeline received 3.6 million calls and texts, and that number is expected to double in the first full year of the 988 changeover.
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After 20 years in an off-and-on relationship, Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck have decided “to declare our love to the world through the ancient and nearly universal symbol of marriage.” Lopez announced to her fans in her “On The JLo” newsletter that the couple flew to Nevada to tie the knot in a quintessential Las Vegas chapel. They met in 2001 on the set of their movie “Gigli” and started dating the following year. Then, after years of separation during failed marriages for both, Bennifer reunited in 2021.
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If you haven't heard, a town in Spain wants to fine people $800 for peeing in the ocean. That has ignited talk about whether or not it's bad to do. Yes, it's gross . . . but there's a lot of worse insanity being dumped into the ocean.
There's a new poll on peeing while swimming . . . because, hey, why not . . . and 41% of people say you should just go to a restroom, and avoid peeing in the ocean OR a pool. Another 48% said it's okay to pee in the ocean, but NOT a pool.
5% of people said they think it's FINE to pee in BOTH the ocean and swimming pools. And 1% say peeing in a pool is okay, but NOT the ocean.
So, 6% of people are okay peeing in pools. Which is the wrong answer.
In addition to being nasty, urine messes with a pool's chemistry, which is vital for keeping the water safe. It both uses up chlorine that's needed to kill bacterial microbes and it alters a pool's pH, which can throw the chemical balance out of whack.
If you're wondering who's peeing in the pool, in the survey, 10% of 18- to 24-year-olds say it's okay to pee in the pool . . . while only 2% of people 65 and older agree.
From Britannica.com - It's our mission to make you know it's absolutely OK to go in the ocean. And here's why. First off, urine is mostly water. The average human's urine is more than 95% water. It also has between one and two grams per liter of sodium and chloride ions.
Guess what's in sea water? The ocean is 96.5% H2O, and has a higher concentration of sodium and chloride than urine. urine in seawater also contains small amounts of potassium. So far, so good.
Second, urea is the main waste product in our urine. As our bodies break down proteins in food, urea is the leftover compound that gets rid of the excess nitrogen in our bodies. The amount of urea we release in our urine is just-- pardon the expression-- a drop in the ocean. The volume of the Atlantic Ocean is about 350 quintillion liters. That's 350 and 18 zeroes.
If every person on earth had the average amount of pee containing the average amount of urea into the Atlantic, there'd be just 60 parts per trillion of urea in the ocean. That's nothing, guys. Plus, urea contains a lot of nitrogen. Nitrogen combines with water to produce ammonium, which feeds ocean plant life. So no issue there, guys. We're still good.
Finally, forgetting all the fancy math, every animal in the ocean pees in the ocean. The fin whale lets out about 970 liters of urine a day. That's more than 250 liters. So if they're not harming things, you certainly aren't as well.
But don't pee in protected areas like reefs or smaller bodies of water, especially swimming pools.
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Today's Useless Fact of the Day - It takes longer to drown in saltwater than in freshwater.
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