Tuesday 8/24/21
National Peach Pie, Waffle, and Maryland Day. The 7th state to join the Union with National Maryland Day. Maryland’s coastal location brings with it a deeply rooted maritime heritage that includes an ocean battle defending the city of Baltimore at Ft. McHenry during the War of 1812. One witness to the action became so inspired, Francis Scott Key penned the words that later became our National Anthem.
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Too lazy to read pages and pages of a Terms of Service? (who even tries?) On TOSDR.org you can read a simplified version of it with just the most important stuff.
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Those of you in New York..it's a new Governor today. Know the name Kathy Hochul.
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The Big Bang Theory actress Mayim Bialik, the newly tapped host of the Jeopardy primetime specials and spin-offs, will now fill in as host of the Jeopardy syndicated show as producers search for a new permanent host to replace Mike Richards.
Bialik is currently scheduled to tape 15 episodes across three weeks of programming for when production resumes this week. However, Sony Television will be bringing in a new roster of guest hosts.
CNN's Brian Stelter and former The Hollywood Reporter editor Matthew Belloni both report that Jeopardy champion Ken Jennings is now a frontrunner to take over for Richards. Jennings was the first guest host on Jeopardy following Trebek's death in November 2020.
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There's a new book about Prince out today, “Nothing Compares 2 U: An Oral History of Prince,” by Touré. One of the tidbits.
Prince would sometimes record in the studio for over 24 hours at a clip fueled not by drugs, but by dessert.
“In his marathon sessions, he would eat cake. He loved, loved, loved cake, mostly vanilla with chocolate frosting,” said Susannah Melvoin, Prince’s one-time fiancée and vocalist in several of his bands.
“I would make that for him on a regular basis and that would keep him going. He would come up from the studio, take another slice, go back down. That’s how he kept going.”
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A new study at the University of Michigan found that every hot dog you eat shortens your "healthy life" by an average of 36 minutes.
By "healthy life," they mean the years where you're fairly healthy in general and aren't dealing with chronic illnesses or disabilities.
They looked at over 5,000 different foods and came up with a number for each one.
For example, burgers and macaroni-and-cheese both shorten your healthy life by about five minutes. But the good news is you can also add time.
Opting for a handful of cashews can extend your healthy years by 26 minutes.
Other things that do it include fruits, vegetables, and seafood. And this one's surprising but peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwiches can also add time.
(so we need to do math to even it out? Is that how it works?)
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A new survey has determined that the average American only experiences "truly pain-free days" 13 times per year.
So that means more than 96% of every year is a total pain.
48% of people say it's hard to believe they'll ever have another pain-free day.
The survey also found that the average person feels six years older than they actually are due to aches and pains and when it comes to pain tolerance, 65% of people say that women have a higher pain tolerance than men.
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A 52-year-old guy in Tennessee got arrested on Wednesday after he jumped in a river naked, hopped on a log, and floated along while singing the Lee Greenwood song, "God Bless the USA".
Someone called 911 around 11:00 A.M. and said they saw a naked man clinging to a log in a river about 70 miles east of Knoxville.
The guy's name is Troy Hunt, and he refused to be rescued. They tossed him a rope from a few different bridges as he went by, and he wouldn't grab it.
He made it about ten miles before they finally pulled him out at a boat ramp in the middle of a public park.
When they asked why he was naked, he said the current must have ripped his shorts off. He also said he didn't grab their ropes because they were yelling at him, and it hurt his feelings. They think he may have been doing some drinking earlier that morning. (You think?)
Here's the video.
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