Tuesday 7/26/22
Celebrate:
Aunt and Uncles Day
Holistic Therapy Day
National All or Nothing Day
National Bagelfest Day
National Coffee Milkshake Day
One Voice Day - unites all countries of the world with the reading of the Universal Peace Covenant on July 26th at 6 p.m. each year. Individuals and groups around the world unite spiritually, declaring their commitment to global peace.
World Tofu Day
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Paul Sorvino, an imposing actor who specialized in playing crooks and cops like Paulie Cicero in “Goodfellas” and the NYPD sergeant Phil Cerreta on “Law & Order,” has died. He was 83.
In his over 50 years in the entertainment business, Sorvino was a mainstay in films and television, playing an Italian American communist in Warren Beatty’s “Reds,” Henry Kissinger in Oliver Stone’s “Nixon” and mob boss Eddie Valentine in “The Rocketeer.” He would often say that while he might be best known for playing gangsters (and his very good system for slicing garlic) his real passions were poetry, painting and opera.
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Tuesday’s Mega Millions draw will be for an utterly insane 790-million bucks - the 4th largest jackpot in US history. If you win and take the cash option, that’s 464-million (before taxes). The last time anyone scored all six winning numbers was back in April, but that doesn’t mean your odds of winning are any better now: it’s still about 1-in-300 million.
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Your new signature cocktail has officially arrived just in time for the dog days of summer, and it’s made with the taste of Velveeta. Yup — that Velveeta. The cheese brand launched an all new cocktail, called the Velveeta Veltini on July 20, and spoiler alert: it’s even cheesier than you’d expect.
Made with Velveeta-infused vodka, olive brine, and vermouth, and also features a slight yellow coloring, a cheese drip made from Velveeta sauce around the rim, and a cocktail garnish of Velveeta-stuffed olives and shells on top.
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A urologist in New York says he's been seeing more and more people asking for bladder Botox to help them hold it on long road trips.
Injecting Botox is an established treatment for people who have overactive bladders, or feel like they have to go all the time. Especially if you're a woman. But he's been seeing more requests this time of year, right as people are heading out of town.
There's also a procedure for men called "prostate artery embolization." It shrinks the prostate, so it doesn't push against the bladder so much. He says he had a 20% spike in patients asking for those this spring.
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Science has finally figured out why babies kick in the womb.
Researchers at the University of Southern California figure it's what happens when the nervous system is being 'wired up.' They think kicking helps the brain test if those 'circuits' are working properly. Either way, it's not always fun for mom. Some babies can kick with the force of more than 10 pounds (imagine a watermelon falling onto your foot, except it's not your foot).
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Do you ever put your phone on mute or "Do Not Disturb" to avoid distractions? A new study found it might actually do the opposite.
Researchers tracked 138 iPhone users for four days. Half left their alert sounds on . . . 42% set their phones to vibrate . . . and 9% were totally muted with no vibrations either. And that last group actually checked their phones the most.
They also spent the most time scrolling through social media, and experienced more stress. So silencing your phone might actually be more stressful than hearing it ding all day. The researchers chalked it up to FOMO, or the "fear of missing out."
They say the best strategy for people with really bad FOMO is to leave your volume up, but pick and choose which apps you want to get notifications from.
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Today's Useless Fact of the Day - The words "idiot," "imbecile," and "moron" were once actually assigned to specific IQ ranges. An idiot had an IQ under 20 . . . an imbecile had one between 21 and 50 . . . and a moron had one 51 to 70.
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