Fact of the Week:
Chicago was named the “Windy City” because a journalist thought everyone there was a windbag, a term to describe someone who says a lot of useless things.

Joke of the Week:
Don't break anybody's heart; they only have 1. Break their bones; they have 206.

Weird Word of the Week:
Quire: Four sheets of paper or parchment folded to form eight leaves, as in medieval manuscripts

Strange Ideas:
Ice cream, but it grows instead of melts

Phobias:
Peccatophobia: fear of sinning or imaginary crimes

Riddles:
What has organs but isn’t alive? [Answers next week]

Weekly Connection (Taken from the NYTimes):
https://connections.swellgarfo.com/game/-NyWrQf0xgNSMrkxSi6

Weekly Strands (Also taken from the NYTimes):
https://customstrandsnyt.com/play/StrandsWVMS-READINGLIST/

COUNTDOWN of the week:
Words: Make the biggest word you can out of these letters.
[G][E][T][M][E][O][U][T][O][F][H][E][R][E]
[Longest word from last week: CHOCOLATECOOKIE -> chalcocite, echolocate]
Numbers: Create the target number by adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing these numbers.
[75][25][1][7][4][5] ---> [274]

By: Derek Thu, Ella Scott, and Cassandra Bush

Answer to last week's riddle
What occurs once in a minute, twice in a moment, and never in 1,000 years?
- [The letter M]