April 4th is the 94th day of the year. There are 271 days remaining until the end of the year

Today is National Ramen Noodle Day, National School Librarian Day, Jeep 4×4 Day, International Carrot Day, Vitamin C Day, National Cordon Bleu Day, National Hug a Newsperson Day, World Stray Animals Day, World Rat Day and National School Librarian Day

— On this date in 1967, Johnny Carson quit “The Tonight Show”, but returned three weeks later when he received a $30,000 raise (Jimmy Fallon makes $16 million a year or almost $77,000 per show)

— On this date in 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was shot to death in Memphis, Tennessee. He was assassinated by James Earl Ray as he stood on a motel balcony

— On this date in 2013, Roger Ebert died

THINGS U NEED 2 NO:

Heineken has introduced a new dating app to help young adults find love in bars. The app allows users to “swipe right” on bars to find their perfect match. Heineken aims to break the routine of going to the same bar and seeing the same people. 

Cheez-It is set to launch Cheez-It Pizzas with a cracker-thin crust and real cheese in three tasty flavors.

Subway is now offering footlong Doritos nachos for $5. 

The term “boreout” is trending.  It’s like burnout, but you’re underwhelmed and BORED by your job.  It can happen if you’re in the same role too long, or don’t see any room for growth. 

“The New York Times” says dyeing POTATOES instead of eggs might actually be a trend for Easter this year.  Eggs are just too expensive.

Instacart released a list of the most popular Easter candies on their platform . . . and Peeps did NOT make the Top 10.  Here’s the Top 5:
1.  Reese’s Peanut Butter Eggs
2.  Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups
3.  Cadbury Chocolate Mini Eggs
4.  Hershey’s Milk Chocolate
5.  Cadbury Creme Eggs

Colin Jost is allegedly being courted as Ken Jennings’ Jeopardy! Replacement. A source says, “The ratings for Jeopardy! have been very hit or miss, so of course they’re looking to make some changes. The most important thing to understand with the franchise right now is that Colin’s hosting efforts on Pop Culture Jeopardy! represent a major creative and business win for the studio, and it’s working out better than anybody anticipated.

Will Smith once had a spooky hotel encounter where a ghost tampered with his friend’s phone. Will says,  “I once had to emergency check out of a hotel because of a ghost. This was probably 27 years ago. The ghost urinated in my friend’s toilet. And cleared all of his messages from his phone… It was the Lanesborough Hotel in London. We assumed it was British. But it was scary enough for us to check out of the hotel.”

The new Avatar movie, ‘Avatar: Fire and Ash’, is over three hours long and is expected to be longer than ‘’The Way of Water’’ which was 3 hours and 12 minutes long.