Monday 7/8/24
Celebrate:
Be a Kid Again Day
International Town Criers Day
Islamic New Year
Math 2.0 Day
National Blueberry Day
National Freezer Pop Day
National Ice Cream Sundae Day
National Milk Chocolate with Almonds Day
SCUD Day (Savor the Comic, Unplug the Drama Day)
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“Despicable Me 4,” led the way over the holiday weekend with $75 million in ticket sales Friday through Sunday and $122.6 million since opening on Wednesday.
“Inside Out 2,” with $1.22 billion in ticket sales thus far, is easily the year’s biggest hit and fast climbing up the all-time ranks for animated releases. It pulled in $30 Million this weekend.
3. A Quiet Place: Day One $21 Million
4. MaXXXine $6.7 Million
5. Bad Boys: Ride or Die $6.5 Million
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A woman in Minnesota named Holly Jorgensen is making headlines again thanks to her odd relationship with a fish . . . a sunfish she named Greenie almost a decade ago.
She lives on a lake, and he visits her at her dock. She hand-feeds him, and he also follows her around when she swims.
She knows he'll die or be caught someday. But the lake she lives on thawed out this spring, and he showed up for a NINTH year in a row.
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Can you name something that used to be really common but just sort of vanished over time? Someone asked Reddit . . .
Those shoes with wheels in them. They're called Heelys, and they're still around. They're just not as huge as they were.
Pay Phones.
Prizes in cereal boxes. Some still do it. But they've mostly switched to QR codes where you get a link to a mobile app.
"Picture-in-picture" as a feature on TVs. It was a huge deal to be able to watch two things as once. Now everyone's watching TV while also using their computer AND their phone. So who cares?
Voiceovers in movie trailers. It seems like none of them have one now. (In a world....)
Paid lunch breaks. "Nine to five" used to mean eight hours, and you got a break in the middle. But a lot of companies switched to "nine to six" at some point, and everyone just took it on the chin.
Missing people on milk containers.
3D..they tried again with movies, and we just don't really care.
"Mechanical credit card machines that took an imprint then you had to sign."
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A retired couple from Virginia named Judy and Mike McNamara are getting closer to accomplishing their dream . . . of eating at every Texas Roadhouse location in the U.S. There are around 650 of them.
They should hit another 80 this year, bringing their total up over 500. They went to their first one in 2003, but really kicked it into gear after Judy retired seven years ago.
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Today’s Useless Fact of the Day - The highest scoring word you can play on the FIRST turn in Scrabble is . . . muzjiks. That's a word for Russian peasants, and will earn 128 points. Of course, you'd have to randomly start with those exact seven letters, so it'll probably never happen to you.
Although it DID happen to a guy named Jesse Inman at the National Scrabble Championship in 2008 sort of. He played muzjiks using a blank tile for the "U" as his opening word for 126 points.
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