Today is opening day of the Major League Baseball season. To celebrate the MLB has teamed up with the most famous baseball snack “Cracker Jack” and are releasing special edition bags of “Cracker Jill” at baseball stadiums across the country. It’s all to support the Women’s Sports Foundation. Even if you’re not going to a…
Today is opening day for the baseball season to celebrate here’s a baseball mystery. Why do the players wear numbers on the back of their jerseys? The first baseball team to ever do it back in the 1920s were the New York Yankees. The reasoning behind it was for the team to wear the numbers…
All this week I have tickets to Train with special guests Jewel, Blues Traveler & Will Anderson at the Bethel Woods Center for the Performing Arts in Bethel NY Friday, July 8! Kind of a throwback road trip show. It’s a Friday so you can make a whole weekend out of it. Play every day at…
Everyone is glued to screens nowadays, but surprisingly there is a vintage industry that seems to be thriving. Libraries. This article explains how 174 million Americans actually have a library card right now. That adds up to around 54% of the population. A lot of libraries offer digital books now too so if you include…
You might have stopped at a few today. A red stop sign. But why red? They weren’t always red, or any color at all actually. Prior to the 1920s they didn’t have any specific color or shape. Then in 1922 they made them yellow octagons. The red faded too quickly so yellow was the best…
All this week I have tickets to Train with special guests Jewel, Blues Traveler & Will Anderson at the Bethel Woods Center for the Performing Arts in Bethel NY Friday, July 8! Kind of a throwback road trip show. It’s a Friday so you can make a whole weekend out of it. Play every day at…
This is something you don’t see every day. Police on Long Island were able to save a baby seal that wandered out of the water and into a traffic circle in Southhampton. They believe that the seal swam up a nearby river following a school of fish. After climbing out of the river the animal…
If you have kids who love the cereal Fruit Loops you’ve probably had this conversation before. What flavors are the individual colored loops? I always thought they were all different fruit flavors, but nope! Kellogg’s has admitted that every color of Froot Loops is the SAME FLAVOR. Wait, what?! There is even a name for…
All this week I have tickets to Train with special guests Jewel, Blues Traveler & Will Anderson at the Bethel Woods Center for the Performing Arts in Bethel NY Friday, July 8! Kind of a throwback road trip show. It’s a Friday so you can make a whole weekend out of it. Play every day at…
Since the first Grammy Awards ceremony in 1959, the statuette presented to winners is a gold-plated gramophone, also known as a phonograph or record player. The name Grammy is an homage to the gramophone and its revolutionary impact on the music industry. Some innovative students at UCONN could be part of NASA history. NASA has…