$1k: How much finance site FinanceBuzz will pay a “Pumpkin Spice Pundit” to rate 20+ seasonal items from Trader Joe’s. This person will also receive a $500 Trader Joe’s gift card, which they may spend on delicacies such as pumpkin ravioli, pumpkin cheesecake croissants, or pumpkin spice chardonnay. Applications are due tomorrow, so get rolling.
125+: How many baby puffins sisters Ágústa Ósk Georgsdóttir and Sunna Tórshamar Georgsdóttir claim they catch and throw off a cliff every year in Vestmannaeyjar, an island off Iceland’s southern coast. Pufflings can confuse artificial lights for moonlight and get lost on their way to sea. Residents have made helping them an annual tradition, saying it’s common to nab 10 per night. Found pufflings are kept in cardboard boxes till morning, then tossed on their way.
20+: Insider interviews in “Glitter and Greed: The Lisa Frank Story,” an upcoming docuseries covering the rise and fall of Frank’s iconic brand. What we already know is that Frank started her company at just 25 in Arizona, only to become what many considered the worst employer in Tucson. Jezebel once called it a “rainbow gulag.”
~57m: Tons of plastic humans pollute the Earth with every year, per a new study that used AI to model water management in 50k+ municipalities. If the study is accurate, that means we’ve got a lot of plastic that was not disposed of properly, which could now be languishing in nature or maybe inside of our bodies. Great.