Wednesday 8/23/23
Celebrate:
Buttered Corn Day
Hug Your Sweetheart Day
Internaut Day - celebrates the invention of the World Wide Web. It can be defined as a person who has a deep knowledge of how to use the internet, as well as of its history.
National Cheap Flight Day
National Cuban Sandwich Day - a variation of a Ham and Cheese
National Sponge Cake Day
Ride the Wind Day
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Nothing could stop sprinter Sha'Carri Richardson Monday night as she crushed the world record in the woman's 100-meter. It took her just 10.65 seconds to get her name in the books at the world championships - the biggest race outside of the Olympics. Richardson was blocked from the Tokyo Olympics after testing positive for marijuana, but she has continued to prove her might on the national stage.
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You're new term of the day - Screen Apnea.
It's like sleep apnea, where you stop breathing in your sleep except it happens when you're too focused on screens.
You might be holding your breath or taking shallower breaths without knowing it.
She tracked 200 other people's breathing while they checked their email, and found 80% sometimes held their breath or altered their breathing.
It's part of our body's stress response to any sort of stimuli. Our nervous system kicks into gear, just in case there's a threat. Then our body responds by slowing our breathing to help us focus.
When it happens too much, it sends our body into a, quote, "chronic state of threat" that leaves us feeling exhausted and drained every day.
Here's a trick that might help though: If you catch yourself holding your breath, try SIGHING out loud. Studies show it might help reset your breathing, and get you to start taking deeper breaths again.
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How much time do you waste on finding things you misplaced?
Here are four tricks to quickly find things you’ve lost whether it’s your phone, keys, remote, or headphones.
1. Check the spots where you’ve lost it before. Is your missing phone usually by the sink? Is your remote usually on the mantle? Look there first.
2. Retrace your steps. Think back to when you had the item in your hand most recently and try to retrace your steps to that point.
3. Look in all the seating areas. Places where you sit are magnets for your items. Look in the couch cushions, behind throw pillows, on side tables, and under couches and chairs.
4. Change the lighting. Sometimes when you change how a room looks, it helps you search with fresh eyes. Plus, this also helps because you might’ve left something in the shadows.
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Someone asked people to name the worst purchase they've ever made in their life. Buzzfeed has a list of the best (or worst.)
A guy paid $20 to sign up for unlimited rentals at his local Blockbuster . . . then it shut down within a month.
You know those "Shape Up" shoes with rounded bottoms that are supposed to work out your legs? Someone paid $100 for a pair . . . immediately sprained their ankle . . . and never wore them again.
Someone paid a website $10 for secrets on how to become a millionaire. They ended up getting a PDF with instructions on how to build a website . . . and charge people $10 for secrets on how to become a millionaire.
See more here.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/briangalindo/worst-purchases-people-have-ever-made
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A new poll found the average person experiences 140 moments of "Phone Peril" a year where you panic about your phone for one reason or another.
The top things that cause it include dropping your phone on the ground, and thinking you left it somewhere.
140 times a year is 2.7 times a week. It's even higher for young people. Gen Zers have 187 moments of phone peril a year, or 3.6 times a week.
The average American has had their current phone for just over two years. And LOTS of us are using a phone that's partially broken in some way.
24% of us have a cracked screen . . . 21% have battery issues . . . and 15% have a phone that seems to overheat a lot.
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Today's Useless Fact of the Day - When Disneyland opened in 1955, the Tomorrowland area was designed to look like a year in the distant future . . . 1986.
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