8/18/26 - Shorts at Work, Prop Bets Everywhere, and Mosquito Drones

Tuesday  8/18/26

Celebrate:

Helium Discovery Day

Mail Order Catalog Day

National Bad Poetry Day

National Fajita Day

National Ice Cream Pie Day

Never Give Up Day

Pinot Noir Day

Serendipity Day

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Still kind of warm...did you wear shorts to work today?

Women in Japan don't want men wearing shorts to the office. 

They call it Leg Hair Harassment.

Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike introduced "Tokyo Cool Biz" in April, but four months on, a rift has emerged.

But women in offices in Tokyo are still expected to wear tights if their work attire exposes their legs.

And female office workers have coined the term ‘leg hair harassment’ - referring to the discomfort of being forced to look at their male colleagues’ hairy legs.

“I just don’t think hairy legs look very neat,” Sachie Koike, a 52-year-old estate agent, told AFP.

Atsuko Tamada, a professor of French literature at Chubu University in Japan, said: “Women already face significant social pressure to invest time and money in their appearance.

“If men are now encouraged to wear shorts or sandals, should the same standards of appearance apply to them?”

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Every year at the Super Bowl, there are the strange best..The Prop Bet.

How long will the Star Spangled Banner be? What color will the Gatorade be? Things like that.

Now..you can do that at Weddings!!!

Couples can actually make extra money for the wedding. "It's proven to help guests pay closer attention to all the sweet, sentimental, and unexpected moments that make a wedding special," explain Greg and Stacy Stahl, the husband-and-wife duo behind the Betting on the Wedding app

A few of their wedding prop bet ideas include:

How long will the ceremony be?

How many times will the word "forever" be said in the vows?

Will the best man use a sheet of paper, cell phone or nothing during their speech?

Will the bride have an outfit change

Will there be any choreographed dances?

Will an Ed Sheeran song be played?

What will the last song be?

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There is a pillow that better give me the best sleep of my life. It costs $57,000.

It has been specially designed by a physiotherapist from the Netherlands

It is studded with gold, diamonds, and sapphires. The cotton inside this pillow is from a robotic milling machine. In the zip of this pillow, four diamonds have been placed. The pillow can block the electromagnetic radiation emitted from our head during sleep with their 24-carat gold cover and a glitzy fabric sheath.

It's also custom-made.

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Aubrey Birrell’s family was getting ready for dinner when her dad made a shocking discovery inside their Airbnb. 

Aubrey tells PEOPLE the entire home was filled with decor that had a “beachy vibe.” There were palm trees and paintings, but only one “blown up” photo of beachgoers on a sunny day. Her dad happened to take a long look at a large photo hanging in one of the hallways.

“My dad jokingly was like, ‘Oh my gosh, this kind of looks like me.’ Because we do love the ocean. We love to travel anywhere with an ocean,” Aubrey says. 

“So then I looked closely, like, ‘Dad, this is actually you and that’s Libby and that’s Brady,’ ” Aubrey says of her siblings. “We were all shocked. I was showing every single person in my family. I was FaceTiming all my friends like, ‘Look how crazy.’ ”

Turns out it's a photo that a local photographer had taken with a drone and used to decorate some of the properties.

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One company is taking the battle against mosquitoes directly to the skies with tiny air-to-air killer drones.

The drone monitors its surroundings for insects, continuously patrolling a defined area and returning to charge when necessary. Once it detects a target in the air, it launches towards it and “neutralizes” it mid-air – simply by chopping it up with its propellers.

In case you were wondering how the killer drone differentiates between enemy mosquitoes and flying friendlies, it uses an ingenious tracking technique. Every insect has a distinct sonar signature that’s determined by its wingbeat frequency and its harmonic structure. The drone processes these characteristics to differentiate between various types of insects. The company also says the drone is completely safe around children and pets.

It's still in the demo stage.

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It's a rare syndrome that is triggered by happiness. Happy Heart Syndrome.

The woman arrived at hospital with chest pain that had lasted for three days, along with shortness of breath that worsened with activity. An electrocardiogram showed changes typically associated with a heart attack, while blood tests revealed elevated troponin levels, a marker of heart muscle injury.

She was admitted to intensive care and treated as a suspected case of acute coronary syndrome.

Takotsubo syndrome is typically associated with intense emotional stress such as bereavement, fear or shocking news. In this case, the woman’s symptoms developed days after experiencing overwhelming joy at her daughter’s wedding.

According to the report, positive emotional events can trigger the same surge of stress hormones that temporarily weakens the heart muscle.

I just hope that the daughter never tells her she's going to have a baby!!!!

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There's a trend in China where hugging winter melons to cool down while sleeping. (they look like really large long cucumbers)

Many individuals shared photos of themselves slumbering while clutching these large vegetables, which are comparable in size to a toddler, highlighting their remarkable cooling effects.

Probably don't want to eat it after you've spooned it!

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Today's Useless Fact of the Day - Science for Helium Discovery Day.

Helium is the second-most abundant element in the universe, making up roughly 24% of its elemental mass. It gets its name from Helios, the Greek god of the Sun, after being detected during a solar eclipse analysis in 1868. 

Extreme Cold: It holds the lowest boiling point of any known element at -268.9°C (-452°F) and does not solidify at standard atmospheric pressure. At ultra-low temperatures, it turns into a superfluid capable of flowing completely without friction.