Nice News - Super Bowl LVII will be the first championship game in NFL history to run entirely on renewable energy, sourced from a solar farm in the Nevada desert.
Interesting Facts - Every flag has a story, but few are as endearing as Alaska’s. One of the rare places to have a flag before it was actually a state, the Last Frontier held a contest to design its territorial standard in 1926-27 — and a 13-year-old won.... Benny Benson lived in an orphanage known as the Jesse Lee Home in Seward, Alaska, when he came up with the winning design, which included a description he wrote himself: “The blue field is for the Alaska sky and the forget-me-not, an Alaska flower. The North Star is for the future of the state of Alaska, the most northerly in the Union. The dipper is for the Great Bear – symbolizing strength.” His design also featured “1867” in commemoration of the year the United States bought Alaska from Russia, although the numbers didn’t make the final cut.
Axios - Pork production in the U.S. has become increasingly efficient, and the tenderloin, ham, sausage and bacon hitting butchers and grocery stores is outpacing demand, The Wall Street Journal reports. Demand has fallen 9% in the last two decades, while production is up 25%. Sales are especially low among younger consumers.
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