Monday 12.15.25
1-How many Christmas gifts should you get your kids or grandkids? A growing number of families are following a “4-gift rule” (something they want, need, will wear, and read).
2-Is the phrase “happy wife, happy life” true? It has some scientific backing, a study found that a husband’s happiness is strongly linked to his wife’s satisfaction with the marriage.
3-There are always 225 squares On a Scrabble board. The board is 15 squares by 15 squares.
1-The average smartphone has 40 apps but only 10 of them are used daily.
2-A study finds that people who work extra hours are more likely to drink more. [So, apparently, they’re just working overtime to pay for the drinks.]
3-The world record for largest ball of lint is 690 pounds. [If you think the lint ball is huge, you should see the cat that spit it up.]
Wednesday 12.10.25
1-Cows are able to walk upstairs but aren’t able to go down them without help.
2-In 1777, Frederick the Great issued an official statement urging his subjects to drink beer in the morning instead of coffee.
3-The longest case of constipation ever recorded lasted 102 days.
Thursday 12.11.25
1-Men and women react differently to getting a present they don’t like. Women pretend the gift is just what they’ve always wanted while men are more likely to say what they think.
2-Americans in the Pacific states — California, Oregon and Washington — buy more books than any other region.
3-A survey finds that 75 percent of American kids under the age of 4 have their own mobile communication devices. [And if you’ve ever tried to keep an eye on little kids you’d swear they also have teleportation devices.]
Friday 12.12.25
1-Sixty-one percent of parents say they give their children an average of $52 per month in allowance
2-Nearly 60 percent of the married women polled, and half the married men, guessed that their spouse probably does some things they don’t know about.
3-More than two-thirds of married women say they are very comfortable snooping through their husband’s email or cellphone.
