10 Facts About Today

Today is the first day of Spring.

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Here are 10 Blooming Facts About Spring that you didn’t know, that you didn’t need to know:

1. Baby birds learn to sing during spring.
2. Alaska and Hawaii don’t “Spring” their clocks forward like the rest of the US.
3. Before Spring was called Spring, it was called "Lent" in Old English.
4. The first day of spring at the North Pole marks the start of six months of uninterrupted daylight. At the South Pole it marks six months of uninterrupted darkness.
5. According to the National Association of Realtors, spring is the most popular season to sell/buy a house.
6. Spring starts at different times
   1. Astronomical calendar 3/20(19)
   2. Meteorologists
   3. Phenological when flowering starts
   4. Nothing to do with what a groundhog says
7. According to legend, Punxsutawney Phil is the only Phil. All other groundhogs are imposters.
8. Your sense of smell changes during spring because of the moisture in the air.
9. You’re safer in spring, there's a 7% drop in robberies.
10. Research shows Spring makes people more creative.

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Today is National Awkward Moments Day. Here are 10 cringeworthy facts about awkward moments that you didn’t know, that you didn’t need to know:

1. Awkward means back-handed in Latin.
2. Awkward moments have an evolutionary purpose. They help us avoid social exile.
3. People will do things out the the norm to avoid awkwardness.
4. It takes exactly 4 seconds of silence for things to get awkward.
5. Blushing when something is awkward is due to the body's natural fight-or-flight reaction.

Top 5 Awkward Moments

1. Sacha Baron Cohen Spills ashes on Ryan Seacrest.
   • Sacha is dressed as "The Dictator" for his movie.
   • He spills a pot of 'Kim Jong Il's ashes all over Ryan.
   • His suit is described and he gets escorted away
2. Kanye West stole Taylor Swift's mic during her acceptance speech.
   • Imma let you finish meme's are born
   • He implied that Beyoncé should have won.
   • He was asked to leave afterwards and Beyoncé cried with her dad and mentioned she didn’t know it was going to happen.
3. John Travolta awarded "I dill a duzzy" an Oscar instead of Idina Menzel.
   • When questioned he said they changed her name to phonetic and when he tried to sound it out he blew it on live tv.
   • We just can't "Let it go".
4. Steve Harvey awarded the crown to the wrong contestant and it took him too long to fix it.
   • He announces its miss Columbia. They give her the new ribbon and the flowers. She even gets the crown.
   • It goes on for at least a 2 minute. Crowd cheering and all.
   • Steve comes out to say he made a mistake. First runner up is Columbia. Miss universe is miss Philippines.
5. La La Land was awarded Moon Light's Oscar.
   • Along the same line, the oscars awarded la la land best picture.
   • Then they awarded it to moon light.
   • Jimmy Kimmel jokingly blamed it on Steve Harvey. 
      

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Today is St. Patrick’s day. Here are 10 Lucky Facts About St. Patrick’s Day that you didn’t know, that you didn’t need to know:

1. St Patrick’s Color is actually blue
2. His real name isn’t Patrick. It’s Maewyn Succat
3. Clovers are 1 in 5,000
4. It used to be a “dry holiday” in Ireland from 1903-1970
5. The shortest St. Patrick’s Day Parade is 98 feet. It’s in Hot Springs, AR.
6. More Irish People in the US than Ireland. 33 million in America & 5.1 million in Ireland 
7. St. Patrick wasn’t Irish. He came from a wealthy British family. 
8. St. Patrick didn’t rid Ireland of snakes. Ireland never had snakes. it’s too cold.  
9. There are no female leprechauns
10. Chicago’s dyes its river green for St. Paddy’s day. They’ve done this since 1962.

Today is national Panda Day. Here are 10 Black and White Facts About Pandas that you didn’t know, that you didn’t need to know:

1. Pandas don’t hibernate like other bears
2. They have the teeth of a carnivore but don’t eat meat
3. Pandas have 6 fingers
4. Pandas are born pink
5. You can hang out with a panda in AR.
6. They eat 14-16 hours a day
7. Grown pandas need 20-40lbs of bamboo per day
8. They will sleep anywhere
9. They are loners
10. A group of pandas is an embarrassment

Today is World Sleep Day. Here are 10 Restful Facts About Sleep that you didn’t know, that you didn’t need to know:

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Facts:

1. Humans are the only animals that purposefully delay sleep.
2. If it takes you less than 5 minutes to fall asleep, you’re probably sleep deprived.
3. Sea otters hold hands when they sleep.
4. In the 17th century people slept in 2 shifts.
5. 75% of people dream in color.
6. Whales and dolphins literally fall half-asleep.
7. Babies steal 1,055 hours from their parents.
8. It's common for the deaf to sign in their sleep.
9. Going for 16 hours without sleep is like having a blood alcohol level of .05%.
10. Studies show that people who sleep between 6.5 hr. and 7.5 hr. a night, live the longest.

Bonus:

1. Blind people often struggle with sleep because they have no perception of light. Their circadian rhythm (internal clock) lacks the ability to match up a night and day cycle.
2. Ever fall asleep and wake up with a sudden jolt seconds later. That action is called a myoclonic jerk.
3. Somniphobia is the fear of sleep.

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Today is National Girl Scout Day. The Girl Scouts began on this day 108 years ago (in 1912), so here are 10 Facts About Girl Scouts that you didn’t know, that you didn’t need to know:

1. Fifty-nine million American women alive today participated in Girl Scouts growing up.
2. Each season, Girl Scouts sell 200 million cookies and make about $800 million dollars.
3. Thin mints are the most popular Girl Scout cookie.
4. Girl Scout cookies were originally baked at home based on a shared recipe.
5. During World War II, sugar, flour, and butter shortages led Girl Scouts to sell calendars as an alternative to raise money for activities.
6. It was originally called the Girl Guides of America
7. The Girl Scout cookie program is the largest girl-led business in the world
8. Almost all Female US Astronauts are Girl Scouts.
9. Girl Scouts started selling cookies in 1917.
10. There are 2 different bakers of Girl Scout cookies.

Bonus Facts:

1. Girl Scouts was started in hopes to break stereotypes.
2. The Girl Scouts were a major asset during both World Wars And The Great Depression

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Today is National Worship of Tools Day. Tools have literally built the world we live in, so here are 10 Powerful Facts About Tools that you didn’t know, that you didn’t need to know:

1. A nail-gun shoots nails at 1400 feet per second
2. The first power tool was invented in 1895
3. Duncan Black and Alonzo Decker made a drill based off a Colt .45 automatic pistol
4. The first jigsaw was just an modified sewing machine
5. SawStop makes a flesh-detecting table saw
6. The portable saw was invented to cut sugar cane not wood. 
7. The first "power" tool ran off of water. It was a lathe powered by a water wheel. 
8. The earliest known tools were found in Kenya in 2011 and 2012. They were 3.3 million years old. <3
9. The oldest tools ever found weren’t made by humans. They were made 700000 years before Homo Genius emerged. The earliest Human tools date back to 2.6 million years. 
10. Ancient Romans made hammers and Planes. Ancient Egyptians made saws and squares.  

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Today is National Mario Day.

1. The original Mario/Donkey Kong game was supposed to be about Popeye.
2. The original game was made with only 2 programmers
3. His signature headwear was used because the animators had trouble animating his hair.
   1. His moustache was also made because his mouth was hard to see in 8-bits
4. In the original game the clouds and the bushes are the same design.
5. Nintendo owns the rights to “It’s on like Donkey Kong”.
6. Mario wasn’t always called Mario. Jumpman and Mr. Video were other names he went by first.
7. Mario was originally a bad guy. Mario originally mistreated his pet (Donkey Kong) and it caused him to kidnap Mario’s girlfriend, peach.
8. Mario used to be involved with a woman named Lady before Princess Peach, and Princess Peach was originally Princess Toadstool.
9. Mario is more than just a plumber. He’s been an archaeologist, a physician and a golfer.
10. In the video games, Mario hits the bricks with his fist not his head.

Bonus Facts:

1. There was an amazingly horrible movie in the 90s about Mario and his brother Luigi.
2. The original Mario theme song has lyrics.

Notes:

The Super Mario Movie had a huge budget of $48,000,000

Ice Cube and Ice T have a song together called “Trespass”

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Today is National Barbie Day.

1. Everyone knows that Barbie’s boyfriend is Ken. But in real life. Ken is actually based on Barbie’s younger brother.
2. Barbie went to space in 1965 - 4 years before Buzz and Neil.
3. Barbie was co-designed by a missile engineer named Jack Ryan.
4. Barbie has run for president six times.
5. Barbie is from Wisconsin, not Malibu.
6. The most expensive Barbie sold for more than $300,000.
7. A Barbie doll is sold every three seconds.
8. Barbie is named after matel co-founders daughter Barbara.
9. Barbie is largely credited as having the first commercial aimed at kids.
10. A Siri-like Barbie, named “Hello Barbie” was once accused of spying on her owners.

Bonus Facts:

1. Over the years, Barbie has had over 200 careers and 40 different pets.
2. Barbie helped kick start Mila Kunis’ career.

March 6th, 2020 - 10 Delicious Facts About Oreo’s

Today is National Oreo Day.

1. “Double” Stuf Oreos are a lie. They are actually 1.86 times more stuf-ed than a regular oreo.
2. More than 123,000 tons of Oreo creme is made each year.
3. It takes 59 minutes to make a single Oreo.
4. Sugar and Fat contents make them as addictive as cocaine.
5. An artist uses a toothpick to make tiny pieces of artwork on Golden Oreos. She uses novelty Oreo cookies from over the years for color.
6. 500 Billion Oreos have been sold. That’s enough to give every person in the world 66 cookies or wrap them around the earth 381 times.
7. Oreos weren’t the original cookies and creme treat. “Hydrox” was and it went to market 4 years earlier.
8. They are accidentally vegan.
9. They were originally sold by weight, not by the package.
10. Kraft foods surveyed 2000 people and found that dunkers tend to be energetic, adventurous, and social; twisters are sensitive, emotional, artistic, and trendy; and biters are easy-going, self-confident, and optimistic.

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