People in the US and Canada are staying indoors now more than ever, and yet, they’re still using Facebook less. Could we be witnessing the decline of Facebook? Last week, Facebook posted its 2020 performance update. In it, we learned that the social network has added almost 300 million more active users over the course of 2020. However, that growth entirely has come from outside of North America. Facebook added 5 million daily active users in 2020, but that’s while losing daily active users in the US and Canada throughout the year. Definitely not the sort of data you’d expect to see after a global pandemic has plagued everyone around the world, forcing everyone indoors.

- Finally a reason not to lose weight! Doctors warn that fat loss accelerates aging by deflating the cheeks, hollowing the eyes and making the jowls look heavy. The findings (Medical College of Wisconsin) are based on middle-aged people who underwent CT (computed tomography) head scans on two occasions at least a decade apart. Facial fat reduced by more than 12 percent over the period. It confirms the “volume loss” theory of facial aging, shedding fresh light on why patients seek rejuvenation.When you lose weight, jowls descend and you lose definition around the jawline. Volume loss around the eyes means they may look hollow and sunken.

- According to a study out of England, drinking coffee improves women’s brainpower in stressful situations, but makes men slower with comprehension. Researchers discovered that men who drank their high-caffeine test coffee suffered greatly impaired performances in memory tests, as well as taking an average of twenty seconds longer to complete puzzles than decaf drinkers. But women completed the puzzles an astonishing 100 seconds faster if they’d been given coffee.

WACKY-BUT-TRUE: MAN STARTS FIRE IN WALMART, CAUSES $6 MILLION WORTH OF DAMAGE _ A man has been arrested in Arizona after allegedly starting a fire inside a Walmart (in Mesa). The fire caused at least $6 million worth of damage. Footage allegedly showed the suspect spraying lighter fluid on merchandise before setting it on fire and running away. He was seen carrying several products, including a jacket and blanket. The suspect was found around 1,000 yards away from the scene of the incident.

WACKY-BUT-TRUE: ‘PEEPING TOM’ FALLS THROUGH CEILING OF WOMEN’S LOCKER ROOM _ A suspected “Peeping Tom” has been charged after police said he fell through the ceiling of the women’s locker room at a gym in Virginia. Deputies responded to Onelife Fitness (in Stafford) on Saturday after receiving a report of a man falling through the ceiling. The suspect, identified as 41-year-old Brian Anthony Joe, landed on a woman. The woman was checked for injuries by rescue personnel at the scene, but was not taken to hospital.

WACKY-BUT-TRUE: GARBAGE MAN FIRED AFTER KICKING SNOWMAN _ If this doesn’t sum up the times we’re living in right now, I don’t know what does. According to Britain’s Mirror newspaper, a garbage man was fired after he kicked a snowman on the trash route. Apparently the stunt left a three-year-old in tears, however the garbage man says he isn’t sorry about it. He said — quote — “I don’t think I have to say I’m sorry. His family knew it was not going to be there forever. The snowman was obstructing my path. I decided to kick it because I didn’t think it was going to hurt anyone’s feelings. I don’t think that snowmen have feelings. It was going to melt and snow again, I didn’t think it would make such an impact on a three-year-old kid.” After his boss found out about the garbage man kicking the head off the snowman he lost his job. • VIDEO

WACKY-BUT-TRUE: BIDET WIELDED AS WEAPON IN FIGHT _ Some street soccer between neighborhood boys in a town in Italy went downhill when one player accused another of a dirty foul. A scuffle brought the boys’ parents into the mix. Just as officers arrived on the scene one of the fathers tossed a bidet out of a window of his apartment, hitting another father in the street below. The injured man, knocked out by the flying bathroom appliance, was taken to hospital.

WACKY-BUT-TRUE: MAN TRIES TO FAKE GLASS EYE _ Police in Germany pulled a man over for drunk driving. So he decided to pass himself off as someone else. Police say the driver’s details seemed to be correct when he told them who he was — until their records showed the man matching his description was registered as having a glass eye. A flashlight pointed in the man’s face disproved this when his eye responded to stimulus. Then he said he used to have a glass eye but didn’t any more. Cops didn’t buy his story and arrested him.

Fun Facts

✓ The frequency of twin births has almost doubled since 1980.

✓ Kenny G’s real last name is “Gorelick”

THINGS THINGS YOU NEED TO STOP DOING TO RETAIL WORKERS

People, we’re in the of a raging pandemic and retail workers keep showing up for work. A few of these front line workers shared on social media some of things customers can’t stop doing.

• “I had one woman take off her mask so she could lick her fingers, count her cash, and hand it to me, wet.”

• “At the place I work, we have plexiglass sheets up in the front of the registers. I despise when customers go around the plexiglass to talk, especially when they pull their mask down. It’s there for a reason.”

• “I hate when people take their mask off to cough or sneeze. They literally wear their mask correctly, pull it down, sneeze on everything, then pull the mask back up.”

• “I’ve had people who refused to touch the pinpad. They want me to put their pin in for them.”

• “For me it’s the people who are wearing a mask but it’s under their nose or resting on their chin. Just because you technically have one on doesn’t make it OK for you to walk around the store like that.”

• “Leaving their masks and gloves on the floor in the parking lot when a trash can is 10 feet away. We have to pick after you.”

• “When you take a step back and they take a step forward. You take another step back and they step forward.”

EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT SUPER BOWL 55

• Super Bowl 55 is scheduled to kick off at 6:30PM ET on CBS.

• The game will be played between the Kansas City Chiefs and Tampa Bay Buccaneers, marking the first time the two teams have squared off in the Super Bowl.

• The Chiefs are looking to become just the eighth team in NFL history to repeat as Super Bowl champions. They beat the San Francisco 49ers 31-20 in Super Bowl 54 to claim their second Lombardi Trophy.

• The Buccaneers will be making just their second Super Bowl appearance in team history. The last time they made it, they closed the 2002 season with a 48-21 rout of the Oakland Raiders.

• This will be the Chiefs’ fourth Super Bowl appearance.

• Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady is making his 10th Super Bowl appearance, an NFL record. This will be his first outside of New England, where he spent the first 20 seasons of his career with the Patriots.

• Kansas City quarterback Patrick Mahomes, who won Super Bowl MVP in the Chiefs’ last title, is looking to become the youngest QB in NFL history to win multiple Super Bowls. He won in 2019 at age 24 and is looking to do it again at 25.

• The Buccaneers are the first team in NFL history to play a Super Bowl in their own stadium.

• At 43, Brady will be making his third Super Bowl start since turning 40. No other QB has ever made it to the big game in his 40s.

• This will be Brady’s fifth Super Bowl appearance in seven years. He’s 3-1 in the first four. For his career, Brady is 6-3 in Super Bowl appearances.

• The Buccaneers went 5-3 at Raymond James Stadium — the site of the game — this season. The Chiefs went 8-0 on the road.

• The NFL will permit 22,000 fans at the stadium for the game, including 7,500 health care workers vaccinated for COVID-19 (all of whom will receive free tickets from the league). That’s roughly one-third the typical capacity of Raymond James Stadium.

• A special pregame coin toss will feature poet Amanda Gorman, who recited her work at the presidential inauguration.

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