Do you ever round up at stores and donate your change to charity? It adds up. A report found campaigns like that brought in $749 MILLION in 2022. And that’s just the ones that raised at least $1 million………… Rumor has it Apple is planning to add a “hearing aid mode” for AirPods. They already…… read more »
A study in England found you really can learn how to be happy. The University of Bristol launched a class in 2018 called the “Science of Happiness”. It covers the latest science on why some people are happy, and some aren’t. The study found students enrolled in the course DID come out of it happier…… read more »
Big news in women’s sports: The 2024 Olympics will be the first with full gender parity. That means the same number of women and men are competing. The International Olympic Committee just did a big write-up about it for International Women’s Day on Friday…… People on Instagram are obsessed with a fat dog’s weight loss…… read more »
A new Slash solo album, “Orgy of the Damned”, will be out May 17. It’s a blues album, and the first release, a cover of Howlin’Wolf’s “Killing Floor”, features Brian Johnson on vocals and Steven Tyler on harmonica. Plus there are guest appearances from Gary Clark Jr, Chris Stapleton, Paul Rodgers, Billy Gibbons, Demi Lovato,…… read more »
Late-payment fees for major credit cards won’t be nearly as high anymore. Federal regulators just capped them at $8, down from an average of $32. A study found those fees have been costing Americans more than $14 BILLION a year……… A woman in Iowa named Trudy Handleman marked her 102nd birthday last week by doing…… read more »
A mom named Jennifer Duggin got her master’s from Tennessee Tech. And her 28-year-old son couldn’t be there, because he was deployed with the National Guard. So the school surprised her with a video message from him and played it on the big screen. Yes, she cried…….. A 22-year-old woman in Massachusetts found out her grandmother…… read more »
The Bellagio in Las Vegas turned off its famous fountains on Tuesday to help out what they called one of their “most exclusive” guests. One of the rarest birds in the U.S. . . . a yellow-billed loon . . . decided to take up shop there. Officials safely relocated it, and the fountains are…… read more »
Wouldn’t it be nice to have this much time and money on your hands? A Maryland couple broke a world record by going to 135 concerts in a single year. That’s one concert every 2.7 days. They say the whole thing cost $18,407, or just over $68 per ticket……………… There’s a fun March Madness promotion…… read more »
A woman in South Carolina just got her cat back five years after it went missing. The microchip still worked, but she didn’t have the phone number associated with it anymore. Shelter workers had to do a little more leg work because of it, but they tracked her down. (Here’s a video of the reunion.)….. A…… read more »
Sting still has the codpiece he wore in the original version of “Dune”. (Full Story) Rickey Medlocke says that Lynyrd Skynyrd has about two dozen songs they’re working on for a potential new album. Alex Van Halen says his upcoming memoir is a love letter to Eddie. It’s called “Brothers” and it comes out October…… read more »