Saturday 9/25/21
Celebrate National Open the Magic, Quesadilla, Daughter's, One-Hit Wonder, Comic Book, Lobster, Tune-up, Research Administrator, and Public Lands Day.
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What did we do wrong to have this come at us? A Tiger King sequel is coming to Netflix this year as part of a new true-crime lineup of documentaries to be released.
Although the streamer announced the project Thursday, it is unknown what the angle for Tiger King 2 will be. The first installment profiled wildcat owners with a focus on Joe Exotic (aka Joseph Allen Maldonado-Passage), the former owner of the G.W. Exotic Animal Park in Oklahoma, who now is serving a lengthy prison sentence for crimes against his animals and his role in a murder-for-hire plot against his nemesis Carole Baskin.
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Chess pros burn a Michael Phelpsian 6,000 calories per game. Which makes their training regimen almost equally as grueling. (guess i should have taken up chess.)
Per neurologist Robert Sapolsky, chess grandmasters can burn 6,000 to 7,000 calories a day during a high-level tournament — or roughly the equivalent of a marathon runner — because even though they’re sitting still, they’re “turning on a massive physiological stress response simply with thought.” Sapolsky told ESPN in 2019 that chess grandmasters’ breathing rates, elevated blood pressure and muscle contractions are “on par with what elite athletes experience.”
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Here it is, your first fall weekend, and what do we search for in each state that entertains us in the fall?
39 states sat visiting a pumpkin patch, including everywhere west of the East Coast. Apple picking was #1 in 10 states: Maine, New Hampshire, New York, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Jersey, Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina. And corn mazes were #1 in Vermont.
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