Thursday 8/25/22
Celebrate:
Kiss and Make Up Day
National Banana Split Day
National Burger Day (UK)
National Park Service Founders Day
National Second-hand Wardrobe Day
National Whiskey Sour Day
Thoughtful Thursday
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The 2022 "MTV Video Music Awards" are Sunday. Kendrick Lamar, Lil Nas X, and Jack Harlow lead the nominations with seven each. Doja Cat and Harry Styles follow closely with six.
The Video of the Year nominees are: "Woman" by Doja Cat, "Way 2 Sexy" by Drake featuring Future and Young Thug, "Shivers" by Ed Sheeran, "As It Was" by Harry Styles, "Industry Baby" by Lil Nas X and Jack Harlow, "Brutal" by Olivia Rodrigo, and "All Too Well (10 Minute Version) (Taylor's Version)" by Taylor Swift.
Voting is open at MTV.com/VMA. You can vote up to 20 times a day.
The ceremony will be Sunday, August 28th at the Prudential Center in New Jersey.
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More Hangover Myths:
Pop pain relievers before bed.
Put down the bottle of pain reliever, “As a rule of thumb, you shouldn’t take any medication while drinking alcohol. To your already overloaded liver when mixed with alcohol and are also stomach irritants. Wait until the morning for those.
Eat bread to soak up the alcohol.
Sorry, bread is not a sponge, but it doesn’t hurt to eat something before and while you’re drinking. Having food in your stomach will slow the absorption of alcohol into your bloodstream, but it won’t help much after a night of heavy drinking.
Pounding water
“Alcohol does dehydrate you, but drinking a ton of water after a night of drinking won’t do much, In fact, drinking too much water can be toxic.”
Instead, have a glass of water in between drinks. It’s not going to be a cure-all, but it can slow down and reduce your overall alcohol consumption.
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Cotton growers across the globe are getting pummeled by severe weather, and supplies of the crucial commodity are shrinking as a result. In the U.S., Brazil and China, heat waves and droughts are ravaging crops. In India, pests and heavy rain are to blame. This perfect storm of bad weather has already sent cotton prices soaring, and now inflation is trickling down to household goods such as diapers and clothing. While apparel has so far contributed significantly less to inflation than energy, food and automobiles, prices are still up 5% this year.
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The Game of Thrones prequel series House of the Dragon kicked off on HBO Max this weekend but not without a few technical glitches.
The highly-anticipated series crashed the streaming platform after going live on Sunday night. According to the tracking website Downdector, more than 3,300 outages of the service were reported around the premiere at about 9:00pm. HBO says 9.9 million viewers for its Sunday premiere episode, the biggest series debut in HBO's history.
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Good news for the fans of the hit 2019 film Knives Out. A sequel project is on the way! Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery is expected to hit Netflix on December 23 after its theatrical release — which has not yet been announced.
The streaming giant released some first-look photos, and the cast packs some serious star power. Some of the people pictured include returning star Daniel Craig, Janelle Monáe, Leslie Odom Junior, and Kate Hudson.
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Eating chocolate while studying will help the brain retain new information more easily, and has been directly linked to higher test scores.
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Today's Useless Fact of the Day - People who live in Monaco are banned from entering the famous casino there in Monte Carlo. Guards check IDs at the door to make sure only tourists gamble.
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