Friday, September 6

Super Typhoon Yagi is slamming southwestern China with heavy rain and winds of 150 mph, making it the second-strongest tropical cyclone of 2024.

Fact of the Day (Reader's Digest): Dogs have over 300 million scent receptors in their noses, compared to the mere 400 receptors in the human olfactory system.

Quote of the Day (Gracious Quotes): Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

(George Patton)

Word of the Day (Merriam-Webster): Gridiron (noun)- A gridiron is a football field. The word gridiron is also used sometimes to refer to a grate for broiling food (as in “put the steaks on the gridiron”) or something consisting of or covered with a network (as in “a gridiron of streets and avenues”).

In a Sentence: The book recounts the quarterback’s most glorious moments on the gridiron.