April 11th is the 101st day of the year. There are 264 days remaining until the end of the year

There are 47 days until Memorial Day

There are 164 days until Fall begins  (Sat Sept 22)

Today is Barbershop Quartet Day, National Bookmobile Day, National Cheese Fondue Day, National Eight-Track Tape Day, National Pet Day & School Librarians’ Day

Krispy Kreme is introducing a new line of cookie-topped donuts. The new flavors will include Cookies and Cream, Chips Ahoy and Nutty Butter.

Ice Breakers is now selling Ice Cube Glitter Gum. The gum tastes like a Summer snow cone.

People are now putting dill pickle slices on top of Oreo cookies. The sweet and sour taste is what’s attracting people to the unusual snack

Taco Bell is testing a new breakfast item called the French Toast Chalupa. The French toast is folded like a taco shell and then stuffed with scrambled eggs and meat. It sells for $2.49.

Apple is launching a red iPhone 8 and a red iPhone 8 Plus. A percentage of each phone’s sales will go to the Global Fund to fight HIV and AIDS. The phones sell for $699 and $799 respectively.

A 44-year-old mom in Florida is in the news, because she has 16 kids that she home schools . . . and she drives them to 88 sports practices a week.

The Environmental Working Group just released its list of the fruits and vegetables that are covered in the most pesticide.  Strawberries are #1 again, followed by spinach, nectarines, apples, and grapes.

“U.S. News & World Report” put out its annual list of the best places to live, and Austin, Texas is #1 for the second year in a row.  The rest of the top five are Colorado Springs . . . Denver . . . Des Moines . . . and Fayetteville, Arkansas

There’s a picture going viral that looks like a bunch of random color blobs.  But if you stare at it for a little while . . . it DISAPPEARS. It’s because of something called the Troxler Effect.  When you stare at something long enough, it causes your eyes to adjust and makes some parts fade out of your vision.  And the way this picture is designed, it makes the colors fade.

Do onion rings and chicken nuggets make good pizza toppings?  There’s a shop in England that’s selling pizzas with them on top . . . but there aren’t any reviews on how they taste.

Necco Wafers may be one of the WORST candies ever, but they’re having a massive surge of popularity right now.  It’s because the company that makes them announced last month that they’d probably be going out of business soon . . . and their sales jumped 63%.

Comedy Central is planning a Bruce Willis roast that will tape this summer. Bruce released a statement saying; “This ain’t the first time I’ll be tied to a chair and held hostage by a group of humorless ass***** for a couple hours,”

OPEC is predicting a 14% jump in gas prices this summer.