December 31, 2024

Americans drink around 360 million glasses of sparkling wine on New Year's. Corks can fly out of the bottle at a speed of 25 miles per hour, so it's best to open bottles at a 45-degree angle.

- goodhousekeeping.com (December 29, 2022)

December 30, 2024

An aunt is part of an extended family. The child of an aunt's is a cousin. Often the word aunt is used with people who are not related to show closeness or respect. In many cultures there are different words to describe a person's mother's sister and father's sister. In Latin a mother's sister is matertera while a father's sister is amita.

- Kiddle encyclopedia (kiddle.co)

December 29, 2024

Founded in 1986, Acura is the luxury vehicle division of the Japanese automobile giant, Honda Motor Company. The car brand was introduced in the United States first to cater to the North American market.

- dubizzle.com

December 28, 2024

Making art helps produce neurotransmitter dopamine which stimulates the creation of new neurons and boosts your focus and learning process. Art gives you a sense of accomplishment which makes you feel good and boosts your confidence. Accomplishment can come from the process of learning, doing and creating and does not have to be about achieving the end result.

- achgroup.org.au

December 27, 2024

Peanut Butter Cookies ½ cup butter ½ cup peanut butter ½ cup granulated sugar ½ cup packed brown sugar ½ teaspoon vanilla 1 egg 1¼ cups all purpose flour ¾ teaspoon baking soda ¼ teaspoon salt

- Lisa's Cook Book

December 26, 2024

55% of Americans don’t use all of their paid time off. Studies show that, on average, employees with an unlimited policy take less time off than employees with a set amount of vacation days, meaning the work still gets done (even though the freedom is there).

- zippia.com (Feb. 26, 2023)

December 25, 2024

From 1659 to 1681, anyone caught making merry in the colonies would face a fine for celebrating. The Massachusetts Bay Colony created the Penalty for Keeping Christmas. It was thought that ""such festivals as were superstitiously kept in other countries"" and were ""a great dishonor of God and offense of others. The penalty for breaking the law was five shillings. By the Revolutionary War, the day had so little significance that Congress even held their first session on December 25, 1789. Christmas wasn't even proclaimed a federal holiday for almost another century, proving that the Grinch's attitude toward the holiday was alive and well long before he was.

- GoodHousekeeping.com (November 11, 2024)