Wednesday 7/28/21
Celebrate National Milk Chocolate, Buffalo Soldiers, and Waterpark Day.
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Buffalo Soldiers Day commemorates the formation of the first regular Army regiments comprising African American soldiers in 1866.
Congress established the first peacetime all-black regiments in the regular U.S. Army after the end of the Civil War. The Buffalo Soldiers (one of many African-American regiments raised during the Civil War) were the first instituted.
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LeVar Burton's Jeopardy debut was definitely memorable. It saw one contestant break a new record... for the lowest score in Jeopardy history.
Patrick Pearce, a product specialist from Fountain Valley, Calif., ended the night with -$7,400, which breaks the previous record of -$6,800 held by contestant Stephanie Hull since her March 2015 appearance.
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Want to speed up the ripening process of your avocados? Stick them in a beer koozie. It really works! (now how about slowing it down...give me that hack!)
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The rumor is that Paris Hilton is pregnant. TMZ reports..nope! The socialite issued a firm denial Tuesday in her newest episode of her "This is Paris" podcast ... saying she wasn't pregnant, and probably wouldn't be until she says her "I dos," which probably isn't too far away at this point -- as you know, she's currently engaged to Carter Reum.
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--The Olympics are providing so much drama...and not the competitions.
If you’ve been glued to the gymnastics events in Tokyo, you may have noticed that the German women’s team stands out for what they’re not wearing: the customary high-cut leotards. Germany’s female gymnasts are clad in ankle-length unitards after they decided as a team to make the change as protest against the “sexualization” of women in the sport.
Outside of the Olympics, Norway’s beach handball team was fined by their ruling body last week after they ditched their bikini bottoms in favor of shorts, another planned protest that led to the singer Pink offering to pay each of the fines out of her own pocket in solidarity. (but yet they won't show the male divers from the waist down...sexist much?)
--Simone Biles was pulled from the team competition here Tuesday after an awkward, low-scoring attempt on vault, leaving the United States without its biggest star in what ultimately proved to be a silver-medal finish behind Russia's gold.
She briefly left the arena floor with a USA Gymnastics trainer only to quickly return with her wrists wrapped for an apparent return to the uneven bars, the Americans' second rotation. She then unwrapped them and put on warm-ups.
Biles later said that she was dealing with a number of mental health issues, including an intense pressure to achieve perfection and fear of how she would be judged by the public at large.
Biles said that she would be working on her mental health the next few days and hoped to still be able to complete in the all-around competition on Thursday and in the four individual event finals in which she qualified.
After being taken out of competition, Biles remained on the floor and continued to loudly cheer on and encourage her teammates.
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The Olympics get you thinking of playing for the gold??? There's a floating ping-pong table that might be your new favorite thing!
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