Monday 8/12/24
Celebrate:
Baseball Fans Day
IBM PC Day
International Youth Day
National Julienne Fries Day
National Middle Child Day
National Sewing Machine Day
Truck Driver Day
Victory Day - commemorates Japan's surrender to the Allies, which brought about the conclusion of World War II. (1945)
Vinyl Record Day
World Elephant Day
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Weekend at the Movies
1. Deadpool & Wolverine $54.2M had another great week and is now in the $1 Billion worldwide movie club.
2. It Ends with Us $50.0M Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni's movie premiered well for a romance film based on a best-selling book.
3. Twisters $15.0M
4. Borderlands $8.8M Flopped hard!
5. Despicable Me 4 $8.0M
This coming weekend sees Alien: Romulus.
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One of the hottest spots for lunch these days are Senior Living Communities.
A cafe and a recently opened ground floor restaurant in a nearby independent living building, that serve both residents and the general public.
It has an entrance on the main street, and one connected to the tower.
Opening up spaces for nonresidents—particularly younger people—is increasingly a goal for the designers and operators of housing meant for senior citizens.
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Video showed hippos got all four feet off the ground at once up to 15% of the time when thundering along at full pelt, often to chase off hippo rivals.
Which technically means that they fly. Well, only if you define flying as getting all four hooves off the ground for 0.3 seconds.
(isn't that called jumping?)
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Japan plans to launch the world's first wooden satellite this September.
Named LignoSat, it is a tiny cube that measures 4 inches (10 centimeters) on a side and weighs just over 2 pounds (0.9 kilograms). It was crafted using a traditional Japanese technique that doesn't require screws or glue and is equipped with external solar panels.
The reason? New doors could open for reducing the environmental impact of satellite reentries. Traditional satellites can deposit harmful metal particles in Earth's atmosphere when they fall back to our planet and burn up in our air.
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Today's Back-To-School Useless Fact of the Day - There are about 8 million teachers in the U.S.
There are approximately 33 million elementary school children in the U.S, 17 million kids attending high school, and 8.8 little ones in nursery schools and kindergartens.
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