It’s National Disc Jockey Day! But why? The reason it is celebrated on January 20th is because one of the original disc jockeys and radio legends Alan Freed died 57 years ago today. He helped popularize the term “rock and roll” back in the 1950s and is the reason you hear people like myself on…
Today is National Popcorn Day. You’ve probably heard before how it’s a low calorie “healthy snack”. This is mostly true if you eat it plain. Sure, popcorn is considered a low-calorie snack if it’s just a cup of plain, air-popped popcorn it only contains 31 calories. As a comparison a serving of potato chips is…
It’s happened to everyone, you get a gift that’s a ring or necklace only to find out it turned all your skin green. But what makes a cheap or fake piece do this anyway? This happened when the metals in the jewelry react with the acidity of your skin. Most of the time the culprit…
Jellybeans, yogurt, candy, anything that is “banana flavored” for some reason doesn’t taste anything like real bananas. Why? The reason is kind of crazy actually. The artificial banana flavoring used in products is based on a type of banana that was wiped out by a plague in the 1950s. So it literally doesn’t exist anymore.…
Pencils aren’t used as much these days but if you do use one it will last you a pretty long time. The average pencil holds enough graphite to draw a line about 35 miles long! That’s also enough to write roughly 45,000 words. Writer’s cramp anyone?! Photo credit: Getty Images
We use it all the time. To ship things, wrap valuables in, or just as a fun time waster popping those bubbles… bubble wrap! But who thought of it in the first place? Back in the 50s two engineers were trying to design textured wallpaper so they glued two shower curtains together trapping tiny bubbles…
You use the word almost every day… “can I borrow 5 bucks?” “That costs about 10 bucks” But where and why did we start using this term? The slang term for money “bucks” started being used back in the early 1700s. It refers to deer skins from male deer, or bucks as they are more…
It’s January 6th and I feel like a lot of people still have their Christmas trees up. Which seems crazy to me, but apparently today actually is “National Take Down Your Christmas Tree Day” so I guess today’s the day. We took ours down the Sunday after New Years. Which seemed right. If you have…
If you’re like me you’ve been in the grocery store cheese aisle wondering should I buy the yellow or white cheese? And what’s the difference?! When it comes to American cheese they are actually both very similar, but not EXACTLY the same thing. Yellow cheese tends to have a higher fat content which makes for…
Happy New Year! Welcome to 2022. Another year begins with the month of January. But where did this month get it’s name from? January is named after the Roman god “Janus”. He had two faces so he could see the future and the past. Much like how we are looking into the new year and…