Tuesday 8/30/22
Celebrate:
Frankenstein Day - the anniversary of the birth of Mary Shelley,
International Day of the Disappeared
International Whale Shark Day
National Beach Day
National Grief Awareness Day
National Holistic Pet Day
National Toasted Marshmallow Day
Touch-A-Heart Tuesday
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Slinky Day - In 1943, Richard James, a naval engineer, was in the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard working on a project that used springs to hold items up on moving ships, when he accidentally knocked down a spring and watched it "walk" and then coil itself up neatly on the floor.
He told his wife and a few years later they were selling them (they weren't moving.) A demonstration table was set up in Philadelphia's Gimbels Department Store during the 1945 holiday shopping season, the James's sold 400 of them for a dollar each in 90 minutes.
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A rare, mint-condition 1952 Mickey Mantle Topps baseball card smashed the record for sports memorabilia this weekend when it sold for $12.6 million at auction.
Sports collectibles are having a moment — the card knocked out the record for most expensive baseball card ever sold and most expensive piece of sports memorabilia; both of those records were set earlier this year.
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Taylor Swift won the Video of the Year award at the 2022 MTV Video Music Awards tonight (August 28) for her 10-minute “All Too Well: The Short Film.”
After accepting the award, Swift thanked her fans and revealed that her “brand new album“ will come out October 21. She later revealed on Instagram that it’s called Midnights and features “the stories of 13 sleepless nights scattered throughout [her] life”; the album is now for sale on her website.
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Someone has come up with a convoluted math formula to determine if you got up on the wrong side of the bed this morning.
The formula takes a lot of things into consideration, including: The times you spend eating breakfast . . . exercising . . . showering . . . and other "getting ready" activities, like maybe doing your makeup and wrangling the kids.
You also plug in the number of hours you spent sleeping, along with the specific time of the day that you got out of bed.
Here's the convoluted breakdown . . .
Think about the number of minutes that you spent eating breakfast. Double it, then ADD that to the number of minutes spent exercising and showering. Write the total down and save it for later.
Then, take the number of HOURS that you spent sleeping . . . subtract it from EIGHT . . . and add ONE. Then multiply that by the number of hours your wake-up time was away from 7:12 A.M. PLUS one. Write that number down.
Then, you take the first number you wrote down . . . divide it by the second number. Finally, you add that total to the number of minutes you spend doing other "getting ready" activities, HALVED . . . or divided by two.
If the overall total is MORE than 37, you woke up on the RIGHT side of the bed. However, if it's equal to or LESS than 37, you woke up on the WRONG side.
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Today’s Useless Fact of the Day - More than 300 million Slinkys have been sold, and if they were all uncoiled and joined together, they'd go around the Earth more than 126 times.
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Check out the web version of this briefing, along with The Anniversary Song of the Day and my Summer Song Series on the web at https://bribriny.wixsite.com/brianbriefing
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