Check the latest and greatest Fun Facts from Brian himself!

Friday, january 9, 2026

iphone themed

  • The iPhone was released by Apple CEO Steve Jobs on January 9, 2007. This ground breaking innovation helped usher in the modern smartphone phone era.

  • The “I” in iPhone originated from the iMac in which it was used to denote a Mac computer designed for the internet.

  • Just after the launch of the iPhone in 2007, Steve Jobs made a call from his iPhone to a Starbucks. Steve jobs ordered 4,000 lattes; however, he canceled the order immediately as the receiver shocked after hearing this. It was a prank call and everyone started laughing as he was making the call from the stage.

  • The time shown on almost all iPhone advertisements is 9:41 AM. This is the exact time Steve Jobs first revealed the iPhone on stage in 2007. Since then, Apple’s presentations are timed so that the “big reveal” happens about 40 minutes in.

  • In 2014 Apple made the infamous decision to automatically add U2’s Songs of Innocence album to every iTunes account. Instead of being welcomed as a gift, the move sparked global backlash over digital privacy and unwanted content.

Friday, january 2, 2026

national cream puff day themed

  • The record for world’s largest cream puff, weighed 125.5 pounds. It was created August 11, 2011 at the Wisconsin State Fair by Dave Schmidt and Team Cream Puff.

  • Cream puffs were advertised in Milwaukee restaurant menus as early as 1868. But they didn’t flourish until decades later, when then governor john Blaine waters food showcasing the state’s dairy industry to be sold at the 1924 state fair. Charles Kremer came up with the cream puff, using a recipe from the south side bakery his family owned.

  • At the Wisconsin state fair in 2025 they served over 330,000 regular cream puffs which averages about 30,000 a day.

  • In Germany, a large cream puff is called a Windbeutel, which means "wind bag" because of how light and airy it is.

Friday, december 26, 2025

wrapping paper themed

  • The first documented use of paper as wrapping material was in China around 100 B.C. when the government would wrap monetary gifts in paper (making a sort of envelope) to distribute to government officials as gifts.

  • It was during the Victorian Era that gift giving became a true tradition of the holiday season. Originally, gifts were given at New Years rather than Christmas, but that changed as Christmas became more popular and accepted in the United States and Europe.

  • It was 1917 in Kansas City, and a shop ran out of tissue paper. Instead, they happened upon some decorated paper from France that was meant for lining the inside of envelopes and decided to take a risk and offer that to customers instead. It quickly sold out. The owners of the shop, Rollie and J.C. Hall, jumped at the opportunity to promote this popular item and started featuring more designs. In 1930's they added ribbon to the already pretty packages. This company became Hallmark.

  • The size of the wrapping paper industry today is immense. Annual sales are reported to be up to $9.36 billion dollars, with 4 million tons of the paper being thrown away during the holiday season in the United States alone.

  • BONUS FACT: Women tend to wrap up to 10x as many presents as men during the holidays.

Friday, december 19, 2025

santa themed

  • Santa was a kind of based on a real person. Born around the year 270, St. Nicholas was the Bishop of Myra, a town in what is now Turkey. He earned a reputation as an anonymous gift giver, by paying the dowries of impoverished girls and handing out treats and coins to children — often leaving them in their shoes, set out at night for that very purpose.

  • In his satiric 1809 book A History of New York, Washington Irving did away with the characterization of Santa Claus as a "lanky bishop," says Whipps. Instead, Irving described Santa as a portly, bearded man who smokes a pipe. Irving's story also marked the first time Santa slid down the chimney.

  • The modern image of Santa Claus as the jolly man in the red suit was seared into American pop culture in 1931, when artist Haddon Sundblom illustrated him that way for a widely-circulated campaign for Coca-Cola.

  • The first mention of a spouse for Santa was in the 1849 short story A Christmas Legend by James Rees. She was originally referred to as Goody Santa Claus, “goody being slang for goodwife or Mrs.”.

  • BONUS FACT: The movie starring Tim Allen is called “The Santa Clause”. Notice the “e” on the end of Claus? It’s not a misspelling but instead a nod to the contract he agrees to after accidentally killing the former Santa Claus.

Friday, december 12, 2025

pasta themed

  • Pasta originated in China as "noodles," originally called “soup cake.”

  • The most commonly searched for pasta dish in the United States is Fettuccine Alfredo, with gnocchi and spaghetti as close runners-up.\

  • The most expensive pasta dish in the world is $2,000 at a New York restaurant called Bice. It has two pounds of lobster, black truffles, and veal. The Portofino restaurant in Las Vegas serves Diamond and Gold lasagna made from white diamond truffles and edible gold leaf for a more “reasonable” $100 per serving.

  • Perfect pasta is said to be "al dente," which means "to the tooth." In other words, it should have a little bit of texture.

Friday, december 5, 2025

national day themed

  • National Back Friday: being the first Friday after Black Friday people are encouraged to relax after the chaos just a week before.

  • National Bartender Day: go celebrate your favorite bartender today, be sure to remember to tip your bartender.

  • National Repeal Day: the 18th amendment to repeal prohibition was ratified on December 5, 1933. Celebrate with a stiff drink.

  • National Faux Fur Friday: celebrate the use of faux fur by wearing it today, no animals were harmed with the making of this day.

  • National Bathtub Party Day: put on some calming music and sink into a warm bath, party alone or with a crowd.

Friday, november 28, 2025

black friday themed

  • One of the most surprising outcomes of Black Friday is the surge in calls for plumbers, who have coined this day as Brown Friday instead. Research has found that plumbers receive up to 50% more calls the day after Thanksgiving than they do on any other Friday. The culprit of these calls? Blocked kitchen sinks and garbage disposals due to the incorrect disposal of food waste. 

  • In 2015, the auto insurance company Progressive conducted an analysis of its accident claims. They discovered that the number of crashes tends to increase around Thanksgiving. Specifically, they found that accidents are 34% more frequent on Black Friday when compared to other days in November.

  • An astonishing 12% of shoppers in the US admit to being drunk while shopping on Black Friday, according to coupon site RetailMeNot, and that’s just the ones who admit it.

  • Walmart, proudly claims that during the previous year, it drew in a staggering crowd of over 22 million individuals to its stores on Thanksgiving Day alone. To put this in perspective, this figure surpasses the annual visitor count of 18.5 million at Disneyworld in Florida and even outpaces the 16 million visitors to Disneyland in California.

Friday, november 21, 2025

thanksgiving themed

  • The first Macy's Day Parade in 1924 featured animals borrowed from the Central Park Zoo, including elephants, bears, camels, and monkeys? Santa Claus was also there, seated atop a sled driven by reindeer atop an icy mountain.

  • The first-ever TV dinner came from Thanksgiving leftovers? In 1953 a worker at Swanson ordered too many frozen turkeys (260 tons too many to be exact), so a company salesman named Jerry Thomas had the idea to create a packaged dinner on aluminum trays.

  • Breaking wishbones to grant secret wishes isn't an American original. The tradition was inherited from the British, who got it from the Romans, who adopted it from the Etruscans, who believed that birds had oracle powers. When birds died they would keep the wishbone and stroke it as they made wishes, which isn't too far off from the modern practice.

  • All told, Americans eat about 720 million pounds of turkey on Thanksgiving, which breaks down to about 45 million birds that aren't getting anywhere close to a pardon. They weigh an average of 16 pounds, though the heaviest Tom ever recorded weighed a hefty 86 pounds.

  • All that delish turkey (and stuffing and other sides) adds up: we eat an average of 4,500 calories on Thanksgiving and 159 grams of fat.

Friday, november 14, 2025

pickle themed

  • The USDA estimates that the average American consumes an average of 8.5 pounds of pickles per year.

  • The name pickle is thought to have originated from the Dutch word “pekel” which means brine. The word may also come from the German pökel or pökeln.

  • Sweet pickles are made by soaking dill pickles in strong kool-aid and are very popular in parts of Mississippi.

  • In Connecticut in order for a pickle to officially be considered a pickle, it must bounce.

  • Arlington, Texas hosts The Big Dill (https://bigdill.com/pages/texas?_gl=1%2A18ige54%2A_gcl_au%2AMTYwMzgzMDk2OS4xNzYzMTI3MjMw), which they call the world’s largest gathering of pickle fans, they expected over 500,000 pickle fans to show up last week to share their love of all things pickle.

Friday, november 7, 2025

the Edmund fitzgerald themed

  • The ship was christened on June 7, 1958, at the Great Lakes Engineering Works in River Rouge, Michigan and was owned by Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co. and named after its chairman at the time, Edmund Fitzgerald. 


  • The ship was 729 feet long and 75 feet wide, weighing 13,632 tons when launched was the largest carrier on the Great Lakes until 1971 and was the first to haul more than one million tons of iron ore pellets in a single season.

  • 50 years ago, on November 10, 1975 the Edmund Fitzgerald sunk in Lake Superior off the coast of the UP in hurricane force winds and waves exceeding 25 feet.

  • “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” song by Gordon Lightfoot managed to hit number one in Canada on the RPM chart and number 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the US.

  • Great Lakes Brewing in Cleveland Ohio sells a beer called the Edmund Fitzgerald Porter.

Friday, October 31, 2025

halloween themed

  • The original Jack-o-lanterns were actually made from carved turnips and not pumpkins.

  • The tradition of trick or treating comes from “souling”, poor people would go door to door to eat soul cakes to pray for and release souls of the wealthier citizens relatives from purgatory.

  • Apple bobbing used to be romantic in nature. You would bob for apples with a name on it which was said to be the name of your future lover. If you managed to grab the apple in one bite it was said you found your soulmate.

  • Zombies are real! The Ophiocordyceps unilateralis fungus is a parasite that infects ants and controls its body to move into an ideal location for it to feed on the ants body until the ant dies and it needs to find a new host.

Friday, October 24, 2025

on this day in history

  • 1901 Annie Edson Taylor is the first woman to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel, surviving the plunge on her 63rd birthday

  • 1911 Orville Wright remains in the air for 9 minutes and 45 seconds in a glider at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina, setting a new world record that stands for 10 years.

  • 1946 A camera on board the V-2 No. 13 rocket launched from White Sands, USA, takes the first photograph of Earth from outer space.

  • 2021 a pair of Michael Jordan’s 1984 Nike Air Ships sell for $1.472 million at Sotheby's, setting a new record for sneakers at auction.

Friday, October 17, 2025

pasta name meanings

  • Farfalle (Bow tie) Pasta: The name comes from the Italian word for butterflies.

  • Orecchiette: The name means little ears.

  • Rigatoni: A large tube shaped pasta with ridges, riga means ridges in Italian.

  • Spaghetti: The name comes from Spaghi which means lengths of cord.

  • Ziti: A small tube shaped pasta commonly served at weddings, Zita means bride in Italian.

  • Bucatini: A long hollow straw shaped pasta, the word Buco means hole in Italian.

  • Campanella: Named because of its resemblance to Handbells, great for dishes with lots of small vegetables.

  • Ditalini: Means little thimbles in Italian, this pasta is commonly used in soups.

  • Gemelli: Name means twins in Italian and is named this because of the twin spirals in its shape.

Friday, October 10, 2025

Unique Countries of Origin themed

  • Kit Kat is originally from the UK, the brand was sold under its creator Rowntree until 1988. In the US it’s made by Hersey but outside the US it’s manufactured by Nestle.

  • Nokia is a Finish company that started as a paper mill in 1865. It ventured into the radio industry in the 1970s as it began to manufacture military radios. Nokia was a juggernaut in the lake 90s and early 00s in the cellphone industry but fell off fairly quickly due to mismanagement.

  • Despite being the face for the OnlyFans American Racing Team (moto2 motorcycle racing series), OnlyFans was created in 2016 by a British entrepreneur to help creators monetize their work. It wasn’t originally created for adult content but being the internet it became predominantly known for saucy content in 2018.

  • Red Bull is famously Austrian right? Well kinda, it was original a medicinal drink sold on the streets in Thailand. An Austrian marketer, Dietrich Mateschitz, purchased the drink while on a business trip to Thailand in 1984. He liked the drink so much he connected with the Thai creator and offered to market the drink outside Thailand and that’s how it became the global brand it is today.

Friday, october 3, 2025

door county themed

  • Door County, Wisconsin is approximately 70 miles long. It’s about 18 miles wide at its widest point in the southern part of the county and narrows to less than 2 miles across.

  • Door County, one of the Midwest’s premier tourism destinations, attracts over 2.5 million visitors annually.

  • Founded in 1851, Door County is named after Death’s Door, the aptly named water passage that lies off the tip of the peninsula where the waters of Lake Michigan and Green Bay converge. Death’s Door is the English translation of Porte Des Morts, the name given to this treacherous water passage by early French explorers based on Native American stories they heard and their own perilous experiences.

  • Door County’s estimated year-round population is 30,066. Sturgeon Bay, the county seat and its only city, has an estimated population of about 9,646 (2020 census data).

Friday, September 26, 2025

pancake themed

  • September 26th is national pancake day, y’all better celebrate today.

  • The first recorded mention of pancakes was in 600 BC! An Ancient Greek poet described some delicious, warm pancakes in his writing. The Greeks often served pancakes outside of theaters as snacks.

  • The world’s largest pancake measured 49 feet in diameter and weighed over 6,614 pounds. It was made in Rochdale, England in 1994.

  • The first ready-mix pancake batter was invented in St. Joseph, Missouri, in 1889. It was 'Aunt Jemima’s pancake flour', RIP Auntie J.

Friday, September 19, 2025

smut themed

  • In 2023, romance novels generated over $1.44 billion in revenue, making it the highest-earning fiction genre.

  • Smut has existed for centuries. For instance, in 1725, Fantomina by Eliza Haywood was released. In this novel, a woman disguises herself as four different women to see how men react to her, as a human and sexually.

  • One of the more mainstream smut series Fifty Shades of Grey was originally started as fanfiction for the popular book series Twilight.

  • BookTok is a section of TikTok that has been credited with popularizing smut amongst its users. Influencers share saucy lines or plot lines with their followers and get them interested in recommended smut series.

Friday, September 12, 2025

pumpkin spice themed

  • Pumpkin spice referred to a blend of spices that was used to flavor pumpkin pie, often combining cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, allspice, and cloves.

  • The Starbucks employee credited with bringing the idea to the company is Peter Dukes, then the director of espresso, whose team created other seasonal drinks like the eggnog latte and peppermint mocha.

  • Since 2003, Starbucks has sold more than 424 million PSLs in the U.S. alone. <- I’ve personally accounted for at least a dozen of those.

  • Pumpkin spice has become so popular it has lead to many pumpkin spice-ified versions of almost everything from hummus to hard seltzer, marshmallows to mac and cheese. Pumpkin spice SPAM is on my list to try at some point.

Friday, September 5, 2025

NFL themed

  • The Green Bay Packers are the oldest team that still holds its original name. The team was established in 1919 and has never been renamed or relocated. 

  • Of all the interesting NFL facts, this is perhaps one of the most surprising. It wasn't until 2021 that a team played a Super Bowl in its home stadium. It was the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

  • The Arizona Cardinals hold the unfortunate "honor" of the longest post-season drought. Between 1947 and 1998, 51 years, the team didn't win a single game in the post-season.

  • The Buffalo Bills and Minnesota Vikings are considered the un-winningest teams in history. Both made it to the Super Bowl an impressive four times in just a decade, but were defeated every time.

Friday, august 29, 2025

funny fears themed

  • Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia: this is the fear of long words.

  • Arachibutyrophobia: is the fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth.

  • Nomophobia: is the fear of being without your mobile phone. (Some of you just checked your pockets to make sure it was still there didn’t you?)Xanthophobia: is the fear of the color yellow.

  • Globophoboa: is the fear of balloons.

  • Ephebiphobia: is the fear of youths or adolescents.

Friday, august 22, 2025

gen alpha slang themed

  • Looksmaxxing: Doing your best to look as good as you can. “Maximizing your Looks”

  • Ate: When someone does really well, commonly used in terms of fashion. “She ate that outfit”

  • For the streets: Used to describe someone who is promiscuous. “Bruh she’s for the streets FR FR, no cap saw her straight rizzin’ the whole football team”

  • Gooning: Prolonged masturbation, edging is referred to as goonmaxxing. “Yo chat, this guy is straight negative aura all he does is goon to that huzz over there”

  • Huzz: a group of women. -there are loads of other “_____uzz” words that refer to different types of people, ask for a more extensive list.

Friday, august 15, 2025

Interesting Origins themed

  • The name Wall Street comes from the original Dutch settlers who erected a literal wall where the street is today.

  • Heroin sounds like the word heroic right? Well that’s on purpose, when Bayer originally sold heroin as a medicine they called it heroin to reference the heroic feeling people got when they took it.

  • The deep sea dwelling Bobbitt worm has some scary mandibles that snap shut on their prey, sometimes cutting them in half. This worm is named after Lorena Bobbitt who was famous for cutting off her husband’s penis and threw it into a field.

  • A g string is a famously revealing bit of thing underwear known for its very minimal coverage. The name comes from people who suggested that it looked like a g-string on a musical instrument being so small in thickness.

Friday, august 8, 2025

august themed

  • Named after the Roman Emperor Augustus Caesar. He was the nephews of Julius Caesar for whom July is named after.

  • The only month to appear in the top 1,000 names for men.

  • The Earl of Sandwich is credited with inventing the sandwich on August 6, 1762.

  • August 8th is national “Sneak some zucchini on your neighbors porch” day.

Friday, august 1, 2025

Alaska themed

  • 75% of all earthquakes in the United States with magnitudes larger than five occur in Alaska. Alaska's high seismic activity is primarily due to its location at the boundary of the Pacific and North American tectonic plates.

  • Alaska boasts the northernmost (Point Barrow), the easternmost (Pochnoi Point on Semisopochnoi Island in the Aleutians), and the westernmost (Amatignak Island in the Aleutians) points in the United States.

  • There are more than 70 potentially active volcanoes in Alaska. Several have erupted in recent times. The most violent volcanic eruption of the century took place in 1912 when Novarupta Volcano erupted, creating the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes which is now part of Katmai National Park.

  • Of the 20 highest peaks in the United States, 17 are in Alaska. Denali, the highest peak in North America, is 20,320 ft. above sea level. Denali, the Native Alaskan name for the peak, means "The Great One."

Friday, July 25, 2025

amtrak THEMED

  • The first Amtrak train left New York City on May 1, 1971.

  • Amtrak doesn’t own most of the track it uses. 97% of its traveling lines are owned by host companies (mostly freight) and the 1970 rail passenger act gives them preference over freight traffic.

  • The Texas Eagle (Amtrak’s longest route) travels from Chicago to Los Angeles. The first train, Train 421, runs from Chicago to San Antonio, Texas, where, after a layover, passengers transfer to Train 422—the Sunset Limited—for the remainder. The entire route is clocked at 65 hours, 20 minutes and travels through seven states and 42 train stations (15 of them in Texas). National Park Service volunteers often entertain travelers with stories about places of interest during parts of the trip.

  • Yes, you can actually charter your own private train. Amtrak allows companies, sports teams, or other groups to arrange private transportation in style, even down to the onboard food and drink menu, decorations, entertainment, or in-station events. Prices start at $30,000. If you happen to own your own private train car you can pay Amtrak to hitch it to an existing train and be towed to your destination.

Friday, July 18, 2025

tornado THEMED

  • Tornado season varies depending on where you live, but in the Midwest, it tends to run from April 1 through June 30th, when around 80% of all tornadoes happen.

  • Tornadoes can happen all across the world but about 75% of all tornadoes occur in the United States. On average there are about 1,000 tornadoes in the US per year.

  • For a storm to be considered a tornado, it must have a wind speed of at least 65 mph. However, the strongest tornadoes have measured over 300 mph. 

  • Tornado Alley is a name given to a stretch of land between Kansas and Oklahoma known for its many tornadoes. Dixie Alley is a similar stretch that covers Arkansas, Mississippi and Tennessee. These areas have weather conditions that frequently turn into tornadoes. Dixie Alley has fewer tornadoes, but they tend to be stronger.

Friday, July 11, 2025

7-11 THEMED

  • Joe Thompson, started 7-Eleven in 1927 when he was an employee at an ice company in Dallas Texas. He started selling milk, eggs, and bread in addition to ice. He started his own company and after bringing back a totem pole from Alaska changed the theme to be Inuit inspired. In 1946 he changed the store hours from 7 am to 11 pm and also changed the store name to account for the change.

  • Japan is the largest market for 7-Eleven with over 20,000 locations. In 1991 Yokado purchased the controlling shares of 7-Eleven making it now a Japanese company.

  • On July 11 (today) 7-Eleven gives away free small Slurpees, they have been doing so since 2002.

  • Manitoba is considered the Slurpee capital of the world averaging over 188,000 sold a month at its 5 regional stores.

Friday, July 4, 2025

4th of july THEMED

  • Americans eat about 150 million hot dogs on the 4th.

  • Charles Thompson and the infamous John Hancock were the only two men who actually signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. The other 54 delegates signed over the course of the next month.

  • According to the American Pyrotechnics Association, Americans spend more than $1 billion on fireworks each year. Out of this, only 10% of firework displays are set off professionally, which probably accounts for the estimated 12,900 firework-related emergency room visits across the country.

  • July 4th was not deemed a federal holiday until 1870, nearly 100 years after the nation was founded.

Friday, June 27, 2025

morgan wallen THEMED

  • Wallen said he asked for a violin for Christmas when he was 5 years old. He also began playing the piano when he was 7.

  • Wallen has two biological sisters, Ashlyne and Mikaela, as well as an adopted sister, Lacey. His parents, Tommy and Lesli Wallen, adopted Lacey in 2021.

  • Wallen was a contestant on season 6 of the NBC singing competition The Voice. He auditioned with a cover of Howie Day’s “Collide” and joined Team Usher Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine later stole Wallen for his team, but the singer was eliminated in the playoff rounds.

  • Wallen is one of only six artists ever to hold half of the top 10 songs on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The others are Taylor Swift, The Beatles, Drake, 21 Savage, and Juice WRLD.

Friday, June 20, 2025

lake THEMED

  • The lowest lake in the world is the Dead Sea, on the edge of Israel and Jordan. The surface level is 418 m below sea level.

  • The deepest lake in the world is Lake Baikal in Siberia, Russia, it is 1,637 m at its deepest point.

  • The longest lake in the world is Lake Tanganyika in Africa at 660 km and it is also the second deepest lake.

  • Finland has the nickname ‘Land of the Thousand Lakes’ as there are over 187,000 lakes in the country. But Canada has Finland beat, with almost 2 million lakes.

Friday, June 13, 2025

stanley cup THEMED

  • Lord Stanley of Preston, was the Governor-General of Canada when he purchased the decorative cup in London for 10 guineas in 1892. Stanley donated the cup to award Canada’s top amateur hockey club after he and his family became infatuated with the sport at Montreal’s 1889 Winter Carnival. This is why the Stanley Cup is called the Stanley Cup.

  • The cup is so large because they have to add rings when they run out of space, they run out of space because the engrave the winning team’s manager, players, coaches, and staff on to the cup. This gives the cup its tiered appearance.

  • Many champion player and team names are misspelled on the cup. The name of the 1980-81 New York Islanders is misspelled as “Ilanders,” and the 1971-72 Boston Bruins’ name is misspelled as “Bqstqn Bruins.” Most of the errors are left as they are—it would be too costly to fix the mistakes. But fans believe the errors add to the idiosyncratic nature of the cup.

  • When the members of the 1924 champion Canadiens got a flat tire on the way to the team’s victory banquet at owner Leo Dandurand’s house, they had to remove the cup from the trunk of the car to get to the spare tire. The players, eager to celebrate their win, quickly changed the tire and made their way to the party. When the traditional time came for each player to drink champagne from the silver bowl, the cup was nowhere to be found. The players had left it on the side of the road. They hopped in their car and sped back to the place where they had changed the flat and found the cup in a snow bank—right where they had left it.

Friday, June 6, 2025

butt THEMED

  • Human butts have been likened to the moon for a long time. During China’s Ming Dynasty (1368-1644 CE) bare buttocks were seen as quite erotic and often compared to a full moon, perhaps because of their pert roundness. Much later on, mooning emerged as a pop culture fad in the 1960s, mostly among college students.

  • In 2023, surgeons affiliated with the American Society of Plastic Surgeons performed 29,383 Brazilian butt lifts.

  • According to a 2008 study, women with bigger hips and butts on average perform better on tests than those with smaller. It may sound like a total coincidence, but research says a larger waist-hip ratio supports neurodevelopment. One theory behind this is that the hip and butt area stores more omega-3 fatty acids, which have shown to promote brain development.

  • Big butts promote proper posture. Tight hips, an inevitable result of excessive sitting, can make it difficult for you to stand up straight. But a strong butt can help lengthen your hip flexors and keep everything in alignment, which alleviates pain.

Friday, may 30, 2025

wild fire THEMED

  • Still, wildfires are essential to the continued survival of some plant species. For example, some tree cones need to be heated before they open and release their seeds; chaparral plants, which include manzanita, chamise (Adenostoma fasciculatum), and scrub oak (Quercus berberidifolia), require fire before seeds will germinate. The leaves of these plants include a flammable resin that feeds fire, helping the plants to propagate.

  • Wildfires can travel surprisingly fast, sometimes up to 25 kph/15.5 mph , and move faster uphill due to the heat radiating ahead.

  • In areas with peat bogs, wildfires can burn underground for extended periods, making them difficult to extinguish.

  • While lightning is a natural cause, over 85% of wildfires in the US are started by humans, often due to campfires or careless disposal of debris.

Friday, may 23, 2025

indy 500 THEMED

  • It is a tradition for the winner to drink a pint of milk at the end of the race. This was started by Indy 500 winner Louis Meyer in 1936 who guzzled a post-race bottle of chilled buttermilk.

  • Car number three has won the Indianapolis 500 eleven times. If you’re looking to start the race in position number one, your best bet is to also be in car number one: thirteen total pole positions

  • During the early days, most of the cars had two seats that accommodated a driver and an onboard “riding mechanic.” The mechanic monitored gauges, tires, and traffic. The extra seat (and man) was later removed for the sake of speed.

  • If all of the Indy 500 hot dogs and bratwurst sold on race day were placed end-to-end, they would circle the oval more than three times.

Friday, may 16, 2025

mimosa THEMED

  • The name “Mimosa” is said to come from the Acacia dealbata. That’s the Latin name for a plant, by the way. It also goes by the names “silver wattle” and “blue wattle.” It’s an evergreen plant that is found in southeastern Australia. Its flowers are a bright yellow that easily reminds us of our favorite orange brunch cocktail.

  • May 16th is national mimosa day.

  • The mimosa can be considered as a variant of the cocktail Buck’s Fizz, or vice-versa; Buck's Fizz appears to date from 1921.

  • A standard 750ml bottle of Champagne should give you approximately 8 - 12 mimosas depending on how heavily you pour.

Friday, may 9, 2025

bird THEMED

  • $46.7 million Americans enjoy watching and feeding birds Wisconsin ranks, number two in fellow bird enthusiasts, second to West Virginia..

  • The Wisconsin state bird is the American Robin. Robins are so common because they are prolific breeders laying 3 to 6 eggs in a nest at a time and doing this 2 to 3 times a year.

  • The Alpine swift bird has a unique ability to fly up to 200 days straight because it can also sleep while flying. They truly know how to sleep with one eye open to make this possible.

  • Pigeons are able to recognize people even with a wardrobe change.  They use this to stay away from people who are not particularly friendly.

Friday, may 2, 2025

grass THEMED

  • By weight, the typical blade of grass is 75% water. However, the bulk of a grass plant’s weight, about 90%, is in its roots. The green color comes from chlorophyll, but each blade also contains carbon dioxide, ozone, hydrogen fluoride, and peroxyacetyl nitrate absorbed from the atmosphere.

  • Grass is not only a major food source for most species, it also produces a significant amount of oxygen. In fact, the typical lawn is more efficient than trees when it comes to making oxygen. A 50 foot by 50 foot lawn produces enough each day oxygen for a family of four to breathe, while also helping to improve air quality by catching contaminants like dust.

  • Although there have been any number of devices and tools for cutting grass used over time, it wasn’t until 1868 that the first patent for a reel-type lawn mower was issued in the U.S.. The first patent for a rotary type lawn mower wasn’t issued until 1919.

  • Some people are really into their lawn mowers. There’s actually a museum dedicated to lawn mowers in England, and in 1992, the US Lawn Mower Racing Association (USLMRA) was established, becoming the first sanctioning body for, you guessed it, professional

Friday, April 25, 2025

nfl THEMED

  • In modern NFL history, there have only been two drafts without a Hall of Famer selected: 1984 and 1992.

  • In 1973 the Oakland Raiders selected Ray Guy a punter in the first round of the NFL draft, he did end up becoming one of the greatest punters in history.

  • The lowest drafted quarterback to win a Super Bowl is Bart Starr, who was taken No. 200 in 1956. That’s one spot lower than Tom Brady, who went No. 199 in the 2000 draft.

  • The 2016 NFL draft dove deep into shocking territory before any picks were even announced. Minutes before the event began, a video was posted on Ole Miss tackle Laremy Tunsil's Twitter account showing him,a potential top-five pick, smoking marijuana while wearing a gas mask. The video was quickly deleted, but the damage had been done.

Friday, April 18, 2025

hail THEMED

  • A hailstone 8 inches in diameter was produced by a severe thunderstorm in Vivian, South Dakota, on July 23, 2010. That's the largest diameter hail ever recovered in the U.S.

  • The National Weather Service uses many different sizes to classify hail. The smallest (0.25-inch diameter) is often referred to as pea-sized, which doesn't typically cause damage. Damaging hail types start with quarter-sized (1 inch) and ramp up to golf-ball-sized (1.75 inches) and baseball-sized (2.75 inches). The largest hailstones on the chart are referred to as softball-sized (4 inches), grapefruit-sized (4.5 inches) and DVD-sized (4.75 inches).

  • The speed that hail falls depends on several factors, including its size, wind conditions and how much melting occurs. Hailstones larger than 4 inches in diameter can fall at a speed comparable to a baseball thrown from a major league pitcher – near 100 mph.

  • The most expensive hailstorm in U.S. history hit the Phoenix metro area on Oct. 5, 2010. An estimated $2.8 billion in damage was caused by that storm.

Friday, April 11, 2025

woodpeckers THEMED

  • Woodpeckers prefer dead or dying trees because the trees are insect magnets. It’s also easier to drill into a snag, which is a dead or dying tree.

  • North America is home to 22 types of woodpeckers. Most woodpeckers are tied to forests, woodlands and shrublands. But some species, such as northern flickers, hang out in woodland edges. Downy woodpeckers look for spots near water and acorn woodpeckers seek out oak woodlands. Some lesser-known species include the golden flicker, red-cockaded, golden-fronted woodpecker, Nuttall’s woodpecker and the Arizona woodpecker.

  • Usually, the bigger the woodpecker, the bigger the hole it makes. The nesting cavities of pileated woodpeckers range from 10 to 24 inches deep, which is twice as deep as those of downy and red-bellied woodpeckers.

  • Woodpeckers, like the hairy woodpecker, listen for the sounds of insects crawling and chewing in the wood of a tree before using their strong, sharp bills to capture their prey.

Friday, April 4, 2025

wisconsin THEMED

  • The Valley Fair Shopping Center was a shopping mall in Appleton, Wisconsin that opened on March 10, 1955. This enclosed mall was the first weather-protected one to ever be built in the United States.

  • The most snowfall ever recorded in one season in Wisconsin happened between 1996-97 when the town of Hurley received over 295 inches—almost 25 feet!

  • An enormous statue of a badger, once sat atop a Birnamwood gas station/gift store that was housed in his “log.” The badger's got a new gig now—he's welcoming patrons to see the naked ladies at the Northern Exposure Gentlemen’s Club, now called Texas Jays.

  • Freshwater surfers know Sheboygan as the “Malibu of the Midwest”, and travelers come from all around the world to try their hand at the sport and to watch the pros in action. Visit during peak surf season between September and March to see the amazing athletes

Friday, march 28, 2025

thunderstorm THEMED

  • Thunderstorms happen when hot, moist air rises quickly to cooler parts of the atmosphere. There, the air cools, and clouds and rain form.

  • You can use thunder/lightning to determine how far away a thunderstorm is from you. Count the seconds between a flash of lightning and when you hear thunder, then divide by 5. The answer is the distance between you and the storm. Use this method to track whether the storm is coming toward you or moving away.

  • Lightning kills and injures more people each year than hurricanes and tornadoes. It can travel 10-12 miles from the thunderstorm.

  • Know someone who is afraid of thunder and lightning(Millie)? Astraphobia is the fear of thunder and lightning.

Friday, march 21, 2025

march madness THEMED

  • Bob Knight, Dean Smith, and Joe B. Hall are the only individuals who have won an NCAA championship as both a player and a head coach. Knight won as a player at Ohio State in 1960 and as the coach of Indiana in 1976, 1981, and 1987

  • Think YOU can predict a “perfect bracket”? Odds say otherwise! The NCAA says the odds of predicting all 63 NCAA Tournament games correctly are approximately 1 in 9,223,372,036,854,775,808, or 1 in 9.2 quintillion. THATS a lot of numbers, and bad odds to be sure.

  • The closest anyone has come to a perfect March Madness bracket, according to the NCAA, was in 2019 when an Ohio man predicted the first 49 games correctly, a record that still stands. Gregg Nigl, a neurologist from Columbus, Ohio, set the record, but his streak ended when #3 Purdue defeated #2 Tennessee in the Sweet 16, a game that was the 50th game of the tournament.

  • The Big 10 has crowned 23 National Champs in men’s basketball. The first champion was Oregon in 1939 (ok, we get it but they are a member of The Big 10 NOW). The last Big 10 National Champ was in 2002 when The Terrapins brought the gold ball home to Maryland. (*Maryland joined The Big 10 in 2014)

Friday, march 14, 2025

green THEMED

  • Green is the color of love, associated with Venus.

  • Green is the second most popular favorite color, after blue.

  • Green is the color used for night vision goggles because the human eye is most sensitive and able to distinguish the most shades in that color.

  • Green has long been a symbol of fertility and was once the preferred color choice for wedding gowns in the 1400’s.

Friday, march 7, 2025

curling THEMED

  • The name "curling" comes from the unique way the stones turn at the end of their path on the ice.

  • In curling you sweep in front of the stone to melt the ice so the rock can travel farther. You’re melting the ice at a microscopic level—there’s a thin layer of water and it makes the rock go farther.

  • Curling stones are made of dense, polished granite from Ailsa Craig, Scotland. In Olympic competition, each stone weighs 44 lbs.

  • Curling was invented in Scotland in the 16th century out on the frozen ponds. It was basically something to do on the pond in the wintertime. They’d take whatever kinds of stones they could find and literally just throw them down the ice sheets.

Friday, February 28, 2025

ncaa men’s basketball THEMED

  • The first NCAA tourney was organized by the National Association of Basketball Coaches. Oregon beat Ohio State 46-33 in the first championship game

  • Early on, the NCAA was considered a lesser event to the National Invitation Tournament, held in New York City. Teams could compete in both events.

  • The Final Four is held in a different city each year. Indianapolis, where the NCAA is based, hosts the Final Four every five years until 2040.

  • In 2021, the entire NCAA tournament was played in Texas; most games, including the Final Four, were played in San Antonio, and some in Austin and San Marcos.

Friday, February 21, 2025

  • Back in the sixteenth century, the arrival of a VIP into town was signaled by the trumpeting of horns. If a person blows their own horns (or toots them), it's still seen as being proud or arrogant.

  • Your opponent may ask you to say or cry "Uncle!" as a means of surrender. It's a particularly inexplicable phrase, and it may trace its origins way, way back — like back to the Roman empire, when it's believed that children cried out for their patruus to help them when being bullied. “Patruus” is tour paternal uncle.

  • Mind your own beeswax. This phrase has some folklore in its history: It's believed that pioneer ladies created their candles by dipping wax in their own individual cauldrons or pots. If you didn't mind your own, you might get burned.

  • Let the cat out of the bag. The origin story behind this one is particularly silly: Merchants used to sell piglets off to farms in bags. If they were swindling their customers, though, they might stick a cat in there instead — the cheaper, more common animal. They wouldn't find out until the cat was out of the bag.

Friday, February 14, 2025

valentine’s day THEMED

  • There are four specific states that can claim the "city of love" title: Arizona, Nebraska, Texas and Virginia. Each contain a city or town named Valentine (or Valentine's with an "s" at the end, in Virginia's case.)

  • International Quirkyalone Day, also observed on February 14, is a celebration for single people. Despite what you might think, it's not an anti-Valentines Day event, but a chance to embrace individuality and self-love! The holiday has been recognized worldwide since 2003.

  • On average, consumers plan to spend upwards of $150 on their partners and loved ones. To be precise, the average estimates that consumers planned to spend an average of $188.81 on their recipients in 2025. The standards are high!

  • The very first recorded valentine was written from prison. Yep, you heard that right! Charles, the Duke of Orléans, was imprisoned in the Tower of London when he was 21 years old. In 1415, he wrote a letter to his wife with a poem that used the term "Valentine" to refer to her. The first line read, "My very gentle Valentine."

Friday, February 7, 2025

culver’s THEMED

  • Culver’s served Over 9 million orders of onion rings in 2017 9,326,744 to be exact. That’s more onion rings than there are people in Culver’s home state of Wisconsin!

  • There are 80+ Flavors of the Day at Culver’s. A tradition since the first restaurant was opened in 1984, the “Flavor of the Day” is a unique combination of frozen custard and mix-ins that differs from one restaurant to the next.

  • Culver’s serves more than 18 million orders of cheese curds annually.

  • 5,400 cows work full time to make milk for Culver’s custard. Culver’s fresh frozen custard is made from dairy sourced from more than 100 family farms in Wisconsin.

Friday, January 31, 2025

  • GG: “Good game” or “great game” cropped up around 1994, when players of early multiplayer online games would switch opponents in rapid succession. Little chat windows allowed them to offer a contrite acknowledgment of a game well-played. “GG” could also mean a contest was about to end—and poorly, for the opposing user.

  • For Your Information (FYI), a way of prefacing some information a reader might find pertinent, was in use long before the first computers were logging on: FYI was the name of a radio program from the 1940s that offered breaking news on efforts to curb sabotage in the U.S.

  • NSFW: The “Not Safe for Work” acronym didn’t begin to get play until after 2000, when a growing number of people were able to connect to the internet on company time. As links to potentially-offensive sites proliferated, considerate users would caution others on the clock that opening them might be frowned upon by human resources.

  • OMG: “Oh My God!” typically denotes astonishment at the level of adorableness displayed by cats online. That wasn’t the intention of Lord John Fisher, who wrote to Winston Churchill in September 1917 and used the acronym in a letter, likely due to the fact he was accustomed to using naval shorthand.

Friday, January 24, 2025

DJ THEMED

  • DJ Faber Moreira holds the current record for the longest DJ session of 244 hours and 2 minutes. He was allowed a 5 minute rest each hour and is 59 years old.

  • Richard Melville Hall (Moby) is a singer, songwriter, DJ, producer, musician, photographer, animal rights activist, and to top it all off, great-great-great-grandson of the illustrious author Herman Melville who wrote Moby Dick.

  • National DJ (Disk Jockey) Day is January 20th.

  • When his legal name was already taken on MySpace, Tim Bergling aimed for Avīci, which in Buddhism means "the lowest level of the Naraka or 'hell' realm, into which the dead who have committed grave misdeeds may be reborn”.

Friday, January 17, 2025

Nickelback Themed

  • Nickelback appeared on the radar playing Green Day covers in the one-moose-town of Hanna, Alberta, but left for Vancouver when Chad decided that a throng of farm-hands didn't constitute 'a fanbase'. "It's impossible to get a band off the ground in Hanna," he reflects. Agriculture's loss was rock 'n' roll's gain

  • Chad's delinquent lyrics are a fair reflection of his juvenile rap sheet, whose highlights include truancy, trespassing and the theft of a small truck. "I honestly think if Nickelback hadn't worked out, I'd be in jail, on a charge of grand theft auto or trafficking," he says.

  • The case against Nickelback has long hinged on Chad's 'spaniel-in-a-wind-tunnel' hairstyle, but it might surprise haters to learn the singer is no fan either. "I was watching the How You Remind Me video and even I was disgusted," he sighs. "My hair was terrible. It made me look so old. I was 26 and looked 37."

  • ‘The Beatles' came to John Lennon in a dream. 'The Doors' was inspired by a William Blake poem. The origins of Nickelback were more prosaic, with the name occuring to bassist Mike Kroeger as he toiled in Starbucks, repeating the same mantra as he handed customers their change: "here's your nickel back".

Friday, January 10, 2025

generation slang

  • NPC, which is an abbreviation of ‘non-playable character’ is typically used as an insult to refer to someone who lacks critical thinking and follows a herd mentality.

  • Gyatt or gyat is a slang term that is used to express strong excitement, surprise, or admiration. Gyatt is most commonly used as an exclamation in reaction to seeing a large butt (that is, the buttocks) and may be used as a noun to mean a large butt.

  • Rizz which is short for ‘charisma,’ refers to the ability to charm a romantic or sexual partner and first began gaining popularity online in 2023.

  • Pookie is often used as a term of endearment among romantic partners or close friends, like pet names such as ‘honey’ or ‘sweetheart.’

Friday, January 3, 2025

KWIK trip

  • Kwik Trip makes almost all of its products on-site at its 90-acre La Crosse campus. At the Kwik Trip Dairy, workers churn the company’s own brand of ice cream, bottle their own milk, and even manufacture their own plastic jugs.

  • It’s not every day a doctor leaves the healthcare field to work at a convenience store, but on Jan. 1, Dr. Scott Zietlow, a trauma surgeon at The Mayo Clinic, did just that and succeeded his dad, Don, as the second-generation president and CEO of Kwik Trip Inc. He’s now in charge of the company’s 36,000 employees, who work at more than 800 locations across six states.

  • Initially just a convenience store when it opened its first location in Eau Claire in 1965, Kwik Trip added gasoline to its services five years later. By 1971, the retailer expanded to five stores, moved its headquarters to La Crosse, and built a distribution center.

  • Like all of the company’s baked goods, Kwik Trip’s famous donuts are made fresh daily at its  La Crosse headquarters. The facility produces more than two million donuts every week, which breaks down to 24,000 Glazers every hour, or approximately 400 every minute.