Jason Bailey

There’s a valuable household resource you’re apparently wasting every single day, and you’ll never guess what it is . . . your dryer lint. Here are five good ways you can reuse it.

1. To start a fire. Dryer lint is highly flammable. So use it in a fireplace or a campfire instead of buying lighter fluid.

2. As a cage liner for hamsters and guinea pigs. They love it because it’s great for building beds and nests. Just don’t use it near a cage heater or electric lamp.

3. Mulch. It’s great for potted plants or outdoor flowerbeds. It breaks down naturally and enriches the soil.

4. Papermaking. If you make your own paper for crafts or stationery, use dryer lint in the slurry. Supposedly it adds interesting textures and colors, and is also great in papier maché.

5. Nesting material for birds. If you have any trees nearby, birds are probably already raiding your dryer vent for lint. Might as well collect it and leave it out for them.

Whatever you do, don’t use lint for stuffing toys or pillows. It can cause a fire if you’re not careful with it.

Here’s some advice when you’re filling out your March Madness bracket this year. Expect chaos. Because this year’s tournament might feature the worst group of teams in college basketball history.

The tournament has been going on for 77 years, and this is the first time that every single team involved has at least four losses. And there are only two that ONLY have four losses: Kansas and Arkansas-Little Rock.

Here are three more random stats to remind you just what a crapshoot it is to pick a good bracket . . .

1. Last year, only 1.6% of the 11.57 million brackets people submitted on ESPN.com picked all four teams in the Final Four.

2. The odds of filling out a perfect bracket are one in 9.2 quintillion. You’re more likely to win the Mega Millions jackpot twice in a row.

3. And Vegas casinos make around $100 million in profits during March Madness.

Some site called Mom.me has put together a list of The Worst Lifetime Movie Titles of All Time. Not all of them are terrible . . . but here’s the list anyway:

1. “Dirty Teacher”

2. “Live Once, Die Twice”

3. “Half a Dozen Babies”

4. “I Me Wed”

5. “And Baby Will Fall”

6. “Cab to Canada”

7. “I Do (But I Don’t)”

8. “My Stepson, My Lover”

9. “A Colder Kind of Death”

10. “Co-Ed Call Girl”

11. “Have You Seen My Son”

12. “A Boyfriend for Christmas”

13. “Deadly Honeymoon”

14. “On Strike for Christmas”

For brief write-ups on each one, hit up Mom.me.

If you’ve ever tried dipping a chip at a party and had it break off into the bowl, it’s because you’re doing it wrong . . . and we’re about to blow your mind.

According to a structural engineer, the way most of us dip chips is structurally unsound. Here are four steps to avoid breaking chips in the dip . . .

1. Most tortilla chips are triangular, and we hold the chip by one point, and dip the long edge of the triangle, like a shovel. that wrong.

2. We do it so we can scoop up more dip . . . naturally. But it ends up putting too much weight on the point of the chip where you’re holding it, and it snaps.

3. Instead, you should hold the chip along the edge of the triangle, and just dip one point . . . in other words, the exact opposite of what we all usually do. And you can get just as much dip, without the breakage.

4. Finally, use chips that are harder to break. Go through the bowl and find ones that are curled . . . or as the engineers put it, quote, a “bent, undulating chip”. That creates an arch, which is the strongest support structure.

We know people are passionate about their craft beers. But we appreciate the people who are passionate about the cheapest beers.

A few weeks ago, 64-year-old Clarence Sturdivant of Harvey, Louisiana was sitting around with his friend, 66-year-old Walter Merrick. And they started debating which was better . . . Budweiser, or Busch.

Apparently they didn’t know . . . or didn’t care . . . that both of those are made by the same company.

Clarence was all about Budweiser, and Walter was arguing for Busch. And as the argument escalated, Clarence asked for a beer . . . and Walter tossed him a can of Busch.

That was the breaking point . . . and things got physical. Clarence eventually ended the fight by shooting Walter in the arm.

And they were both arrested over the fight.

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Daylight Saving Time begins on Sunday . . . 2:00 A.M to be exact. Which means we lose an hour of sleep Saturday night. Here are five tips to help you deal with the transition.

1. Cut out caffeine. Make sure you don’t have any caffeine at least six hours before bed. It’s a good rule of thumb in general, but especially important this weekend.

2. No alcohol either. Even just one drink can disturb your sleep. So skip the alcohol tomorrow night if you can.

3. Eat light. Don’t eat anything for at least two or three hours before you plan to go to bed. Otherwise it can interfere with the quality of your sleep.

4. Make your bed a place you want to sleep in. Meaning, fresh clean sheets . . . and no phones or iPads.

5. Go to bed earlier. To minimize the impact of the time change, make a few gradual adjustments rather than one big one.

Go to bed 15 to 30 minutes earlier than usual TONIGHT, and again tomorrow. You should be fully adjusted by Monday.

Daylight Saving Time starts on Sunday, which means dragging yourself out of bed for work on Monday is going to be terrible.

But at least you’ll be alive to do it. Hopefully.

Scientists just analyzed 10 years of data from hospitals in Finland, and found that there’s an 8% jump in strokes in the week after we switch to Daylight Saving Time.

They say it has to do with the way the time change messes with your body’s internal clock. When it gets thrown off, your body can have some serious negative responses . . . especially if you’re over 65, or your health is already kind of shaky.

On the bright side, you probably won’t have a stroke because of the time change. But if you do, um, spoiler alert?

If you are doing the online dating thing you might want to try this out guys. A study conducted by fishing app Fishbrain, analyzed Tinder photos used by 18-to 35-year-old men in Florida, and found that  22 percent pose with a recently-caught fish.

Researchers then did a  poll more than 1,000 members of a college sorority to get their takes on the whole thing. And would you believe Forty-six percent of the women said they find men who pose with a fish sexier than those who go fish-free.

Not all fish are created equal though.

25 percent of women said the Great Northern Tilefish made the dude smiling next to it look the hotter.

A Sailfish came in second  “Lean, powerful, and independent, it could be interpreted that a Sailfish in a man’s dating profile hints at athleticism, finess, and free-spiritedness,” says Fishbrain

What ever you do don’t use a Carp…. Less then one percent thought that was hot.

Fishbrain

I found a list online of the most annoying types of Facebook friends. And it’s pretty good, because they left off the really obvious ones like the friends who post too many photos of their kids. Here’s the top ten . . .

1. The friend who always falls for fake news stories. It happens a lot right now because of the election. A lot of the political memes you see are filled with made-up facts.

2. The friend who constantly shills for the lame pyramid scheme they bought into. A lot of them tend to be health and fitness related.

3. The friend who changes their profile picture too much. Once or twice a month is fine, but five times a month is a little much.

4. The friend who uses GoFundMe to fund everything. Like for vacations and other stuff they should pay for themselves.

5. The friend who’s intentionally vague about good news. They post something like, “Just got huge news, stay tuned.” So you have no idea what they’re talking about, but you feel obligated to like it anyway.

6. The friend you don’t know very well, who starts liking photos you posted five years ago. So you suddenly feel like you’re being stalked. And it’s even worse if you’re a woman and it’s a bikini shot from five years ago.

7. The friend who has an opinion about everything. Any time you post something that’s even slightly controversial, they’re all over it.

8. The friend who posts pointless hashtags. Like a photo of a sunset, with five hashtags that say things like “blessed” and “beautiful.”

9. The friend who asks questions on Facebook when they could just google the answer. Like asking for restaurant suggestions instead of checking Yelp.

10. The friend who invites you to events on the other side of the country. They’re just inviting everyone they know to save time.

This isn’t one of the relationship milestones people celebrate, but it’s a pretty huge moment when you start passing gas in front of each other.

A new survey went deep into the moment when flatulence makes its debut in a new relationship. Here’s what they found out . . .

1. The most popular amount of time to wait before letting it rip is two to six months of dating . . . that was the answer 29% of people gave. But six to 12 months came in a close second, at 25%. And 22% do it after just a few weeks.

2. 10% of people start passing gas immediately  in a new relationship, but 9% wait over a year.

3. If you want to base it on relationship milestones, one in three people say they start passing gas in front of the other person once they start staying at their place on a regular basis.

4. 19% wait for the other person to do it first, then they start. And obviously three out of four people who gave that answer are women.

5. And finally, 7% wait until after they’ve both said “I love you” to pass gas . . . and 5% wait until after they’ve had sex.