Even though it’s been feeling like summer lately, summer officially starts this Sunday at 11:32pm. In the next few months you might hear the term “dog days of summer” pretty often. But what does it actually mean? The phrase “dog days of summer” comes from astronomy. Sirius which is the “Dog Star”, rises in late…
We all love to eat delicious lobsters… but what do THEY eat? Themselves! Yup, that’s right. Lobsters are cannibals. When they’re hungry and looking for food, they’ll happily eat another lobster without even thinking twice about it. Which I totally get. I mean, have you ever had a warm drawn butter lobster roll here in…
I went on The Anna and Raven Show this morning to teach them about golf terms they should know for the big Star 99.9 Maritime Chevrolet Anna and Raven Open coming up July 16th. (sign up to play here) They asked me why golfers tell “FORE!” all the time. If you golf you know that…
You probably used to stare at it every day when you got to work. That default desktop photo on Windows XP. You know the one… with the sky and grass. But where was the actual photo taken? The famous photo is from Napa Valley, California. The funny part is that only looks like it does…
You’ve probably played with it as a kid or cleaned it up after your kids used it… Silly String. It’s such an odd product but people love it. Who was it created by and why? It’s a funny story actually… It happened back in the 1970s when a chemist was trying to invent an instant…
Summer is here, we are in the middle of an early June heat wave and people want to air it all out and let their toes fly in the car. But is it illegal? In most states in the country the answer is no. You will not be fined as a driver for letting your…
Now that it’s getting hot out it’s time for the perfect summer treat… watermelon! Over the weekend while enjoying a delicious slice I was wondering if it’s a fruit or not? It is right? WRONG! Watermelons are actually a vegetable? They belong to the cucumber family. Who knew?! Cucumbers, pickles and watermelons all related. There’s…
Seems like a silly question, but I’ve always wondered! Do baby carrots grow on their own? Do they make them by hand? How do they get to that delicious snacking shape? Well according to Food Network, baby carrots first hit the food scene in the 1980s as the brainchild of a California farmer who felt…
We have plenty of billboards here in Connecticut. Certain parts of Long Island are billboard free and places like Vermont have zero billboards. Why is that? Vermont was actually the first of four different states to ban billboards back in 1968. The others are Maine, Hawaii, and Alaska. Instead Vermont uses travel information signs along…
Broadway has announced that shows will be coming back this September which is very exciting. I always thought the difference between Broadway and Off-Broadway shows was the location, turns out it’s not. It’s all based on the the size of the theater actually. Anything 500 seats is considered Broadway. 100 to 499 seats is “Off-Broadway”…