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Urgent! No Meat Means No Meals

When there’s a big storm, people tend to panic buy. When you get there, the shelves could be empty. No bread, no milk, and most importantly, NO MEAT! Ready-to-eat survival meat is something you can stock up on right now so you’re ALWAYS prepared.

5 Weird Facts of the Day

Just when you think things couldn’t get any weirder…

• The tradition of carving pumpkins into jack-o'-lanterns for Halloween originated from an Irish custom of carving turnips and potatoes. When Irish immigrants arrived in America, they found that pumpkins were much easier to carve.

• Candy Land was invented in 1948 by Eleanor Abbott while she was recovering from polio. The game was designed to entertain children suffering from the disease.

• IBM introduced the first hard drive in 1956. It weighed over a ton and could hold only 5 MB of data.

• Many fall festivals feature corn mazes, which have become increasingly elaborate over the years. Some are even designed with intricate patterns or themes visible from above.

• Quantum computers, still in experimental stages, use qubits instead of bits, potentially allowing them to solve certain problems much faster than classical computers.

Talk to you soon,
Sam Bennett

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