8/25/26 - Betting, Marketing, and Clean Up Your AI!
- bribriny
- 2 days ago
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Tuesday 8/25/26
Celebrate:
Kiss and Make Up Day
National Banana Split Day
National Park Service Founders Day
National Second-Hand Wardrobe Day
National Whiskey Sour Day
Touch-A-Heart Tuesday
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On social media, someone said: “We just installed our new dishwasher, and this thing is WiFi enabled. It’s got its own app, and now I have to name the appliance. My husband didn’t seem too thrilled with ‘Dishco Inferno,' so I’m taking suggestions.” The comments:
Lord of the Rinse
Dish Is How We Do It
Right now you could go with Odishyus
The dishwasher formerly known as Rinse
Rinse Charming
The Rinse of Wales.
Sir Rinsealot!
Clean Elizabeth
Denzel Washington
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The sports betting industry has grown by leaps and bounds in the past years, with Americans spending more than $164 billion on sports wagers in 2025 alone. It was $6.61 billion in 2018..a 2,387% increase!!!
The top 5 states are
New York
Illinois
New Jersey
Ohio
Pennsylvania
This is all without the new prop bet apps like Polymarket and Kalshi
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New Bedford is the home of America’s whaling history. It's the New Bedford Whaling Museum. It features many whale skeletons, whaling ships, and Historical information.
But it was 2020 Yelp Review that has led to their new marketing strategy.
Someone left a one star review saying, "Worst aquarium ever."
The museum has now run with this on T-Shirts, apparel, and tote bags.
Brilliant!!!
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AI is part of our world now, and Bill Oliver, a member of Canada's Progressive Conservative Party, delivered a speech that is clearly written by AI.
How do we know?
He read aloud a line saying, 'here's a more natural, flowing version of that section that reads like a legislative speech' rather than a series of short points."
This is becoming a common event..
A city councilor also went viral in the Philippines after accidentally reading an AI-generated instruction during a public prayer. The councilor included the line, 'Feel free to modify this prayer or tailor it to your specific needs,' which was obviously part of the AI response and not part of the prayer itself."
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Step aside, Usain Bolt, there's a new speed king in town - TienKung the robot.
The Chinese humanoid, manufactured by the Beijing Centre for Humanoid Robotics, ran the 100 metres in 9.39 seconds at the World Humanoid Robot Games on Saturday, beating the Jamaican great's 9.58 world record time - which he set at the Olympiastadion in Berlin in 2009.
That's twice as fast as last years run by a robot.
The World Humanoid Robot Games, held in Beijing's "Ice Ribbon" stadium, is bringing together 666 teams and 2,056 robots from 16 countries as they compete across events including athletics, boxing, football, weightlifting, and gymnastics.
Video footage of the robots has been shared widely on social media over the last few days, particularly clips showing the humanoids slamming into large mats and slowly falling backwards at the end of races.
Keep watching this video till the end and enjoy the ridiculous boxing match.
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It's not just what you eat, but when!
The time you consume your first and last calories of the day could be linked to how long you live.
Earlier studies linked skipping breakfast and late-night eating with poorer health, but the risks associated with specific times remained unclear.
Compared with eating between 7 and 8 am, a first meal between 8 and 10 am was associated with a 10 percent higher risk of death from any cause. The difference rose to 19 percent between 10 am and noon, and 29 percent after noon.
Eating for the first time after noon was associated with a 46 percent higher risk of cardiovascular death than eating between 7 and 8 am. At age 50, the later group also had an estimated life expectancy 2.46 years shorter on average.
Compared with finishing between 7 and 8 pm, eating before 7 pm was associated with a 13 percent higher risk of death from any cause, while eating after midnight was associated with a 27 percent higher risk. The lowest modeled risk was around 8 pm.
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Today's Useless Fact of the Day for National Banana Split Day -
The iconic banana split was invented in 1904 by a 23-year-old soda jerk named David Strickler in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. He sliced a banana lengthwise, tucked it into a long glass dish, and dropped in three scoops of ice cream—charging a whopping 10 cents for it, which was double the price of a standard sundae at the time!
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