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Top 10 Tell Me Something Good stories of 2021

I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN THAT! 34% of Americans used at least one vacation this past year to do THIS?

This week I have tickets to RiseNY. Which lets you soar over the city’s iconic skyline on an exhilarating, flying ride that suspends you 30 feet in the air while traveling through every borough and season from high above the Big Apple.

Play at 4pm to win. Here’s today’s question if you missed it:

Q: 34% of Americans used at least one vacation this past year to do THIS?

A: Sleep

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TELL ME SOMETHING GOOD: Jets rookie QB surprises fan while having Christmas brunch at Jersey diner

Even when your team isn’t having the greatest season you can still be positive and help others. Like Jets rookie QB Zach Wilson. Who seems like a really nice kid an this story confirms it.

Christmas morning Zach Wilson was out to brunch at a diner in new York with his family when his waitress recognized him and said she and her son were big fans. She then asked if it would be okay if they FaceTime’d her son to surprise him. Zach went one better and gifted two Jets tickets to them for the next game this weekend!!

Wilson was there with his family who traveled across the country to spend Christmas with him. He told his mom to not record anything since he doesn’t do things like this for people to see. He said he just wanted her to be happy on Christmas, that makes him happy. But obviously there were other people in the diner who managed to capture the special moment on video. Here’s some of the posts:

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MUNDANE MYSTERIES: Has the Times Square Ball ever not been dropped on New Year’s Eve?

The Times Square ball has lit up NYC on New Year’s Eve at midnight every year since 1907. There has only been two times in history when it didn’t. Both happened during the World War II light restrictions in 1942 and 1943. Times Square had to remain dark on New Years Eve and there was no ball drop.

But even the pandemic we are in now didn’t stop the ball from dropping last year and it will be in all it’s glistening glory tomorrow night to welcome in 2022.

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How To Keep Your Kid’s From Getting Addicted To Social Media

China has come up with five new ways to un-addict their children from social media, and they’re not bad ideas! What are the rules of social media for your kids? Check out the podcast for some good tips!

Things to Know: December 30th

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Here were the big stories for Fairfield and Easton in 2021 CT Post

What were the three most expensive homes sold in Milford in the last week? CT Post

CT man’s memoir recounts love re-found after 45 years and other extraordinary stories NH Register

These two CT producers make the best cheese in the U.S., according to Food & Wine magazine CT Post

Sewer upgrades tacked onto Route 34 widening project in Derby CT Post

2021: The year in Connecticut Sports CT Post

Column: Choosing the right bottle of bubbly for your New Year’s toast CT Post

Norwalk aquarium gives meerkat exhibit a makeover fit for a (lion) king CT Post

CT restaurants offering New Year’s Day brunch NH Register

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I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN THAT! Restaurant servers who do THIS raise their tip by about 18%

Play at 4pm to win. Here’s today’s question if you missed it:

Q: Restaurant servers who do THIS raise their tip by about 18%. What is it?

A: Draw a smiley face on the check!

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TELL ME SOMETHING GOOD: The delicious way a Connecticut woman is helping families in need

There are very few things that can make everything better. A great home cooked meal is one of them.

A woman from New Milford named Danielle Weisberg understands this more than anyone. She has been baking lasagna for families that are going through hard times.

Any time she hears of someone going through a crisis her and a group of volunteers fire up the oven and get cooking on lasagna. They even named the program “Lasagna Love” which is a fantastic name.

The lasagna looks very tasty too.

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MUNDANE MYSTERIES: Why do we say “Ring in the new year”?

Before celebrating with champagne toasts, confetti, noise makers, resolutions we won’t keep… people used to say farewell to the previous year and welcome the new one by ringing actual bells, often in churches.

Decades before people stood in Times Square for hours without going to the bathroom to watch the ball drop, crowds of people would go to Wall Street’s Trinity Church for New Year’s Eve. Which now, is the home to the graves of Alexander Hamilton and several of his relative, they would “ring in the New Year” with a concert put on by the church’s official bell ringer.

How fun?! I might have to bust out some bells this year for 2022.

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Wellness Wednesday: The Ninja’s Of Nature

There are plenty of health benefits to onions. So many that the National Onion Association calls them “Natures Ninja”! Turns out there is another way to get all the benefits of onions without eating them, and you won’t believe the method they are suggesting to absorb onions and their health benefits!