May 16, 2026
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On This Day
1965 - Spaghetti-O's were sold for the first time.
Fact of the Day
Canada has a free service called The War Amps Key Tag Service that returns lost keys free of charge. Users receive a tag with a confidential ID number registered to their address. Finders simply have to drop the keys into any mailbox. So far over 1.5 million keys have been returned
Nature Oddities
Yoda, the world's oldest mouse, was just over 4 years old, the equivalent of about 136 in human years, when he passed away in 2004. He had lived in quiet seclusion with his cage mate, Princess Leia, in a pathogen-free rest home for geriatric mice.
Food and Drink
Popcorn, being relatively inexpensive, became a source of income for many struggling farmers in the Great Depression, when Americans ate three times as much popcorn as they had before.