9/23/24 - Threepeat, Bees, and Social Media Regret

Monday 9/23/24

Celebrate:

Family Day

Innergize Day

International Day of Sign Languages

National Dogs in Politics Day

National Great American Pot Pie Day

National Snack Stick Day

Restless Legs Awareness Day

Teal Talk Day - to get people talking about Ovarian Cancer

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Weekend Boxoffice

1. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice  $26.0M

2. Transformers One  $25.0M

3. Speak No Evil  $5.9M

4. Never Let Go  $4.5M

5. Deadpool & Wolverine  $3.9M

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You're more likely to be stung by a bee if you're eating a banana.  The chemical compound that gives bananas their taste also works as a pheromone that makes bees angry.  If you want to decrease the risk, bees are repelled by the scent of almonds. A good reminder if you are still enjoying food outside with the nice weather, or if you are headed to the wineries this fall.

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A poll found almost half of Gen Z wishes TikTok had never been invented, so they never could have gotten hooked.

Here are various apps and other tech things, and how many Gen Z'ers wish they'd never been exposed to them.

1.  TikTok, 47% wish it never existed.

2.  Snapchat, 43%.

3.  Instagram, 34%.

4.  Facebook, 37%.

5.  X, formerly Twitter.  50% wish it never existed.

6.  Smartphones, 21%.

7.  Messaging apps like WhatsApp, 19%.

8.  Netflix, only 17% wish it wasn't a thing.

9.  YouTube, 15%.

10.  Social media in general, 40%.

11.  The Internet.  17% wish it had never been invented.

Last stat:  45% of Gen Z'ers claim they won't let their own kids have a smartphone until they're at least in high school. 

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Today's Useless Fact of the Day -  No only child has ever been elected president of the U.S.

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