Head Scratchers & Good Stuff to Know

Mail theft is on the rise, and the thieves aren't only porch pirates, it is USPS employees as well. I have been a victim of mail theft involving stolen gift cards, so I take extra precautions to ensure my mailed gifts are packaged securely to prevent theft and they are tracked. During this time of... Sign in to see full entry.

A 2024 study from biostatisticians at the University of Colorado, Johns Hopkins University, Griffith University, and the National Library of Medicine crunched data from the long-running National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, comparing the predictive power of 15 potential longevity... Sign in to see full entry.

John and I stayed up until shortly after midnight last night watching a movie that was interrupted by the loud boom of thunder followed by a flash of lightning that lit up the sky in a vibrant blue. The crazy part is that the rain quickly turned to snow. The "Thundersnow" as I learned it is called... Sign in to see full entry.

One very lucky West Virginia man received a one-dollar bill worth thousands due to its low serial number. While sorting through his piles of one-dollar bills, Calvin Westfall, a 59-year-old vending machine owner spotted the odd lower serial number. The G00000001I that stood out like a sore thumb... Sign in to see full entry.

“Hello” wasn’t a common greeting until the invention of the telephone. Thomas Edison convinced the printers of the first phone books to make it the sanctioned greeting. Alexander Graham Bell preferred the greeting to be "ahoy" when answering the phone. In the end, hello won out as the prevalent... Sign in to see full entry.

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A Romania grandmother unknowingly used a seven-pound Rumanit amber nugget worth more than $1 million as a doorstop for decades before she died in 1991. Years later, her relatives discovered the stone's true value. I have used a river rock we named Rocky as a doorstop I painted big eyes on it for fun... Sign in to see full entry.

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