Hackers looking to crack your computer password will likely spend 10 minutes to 44,530 years trying to do so. The time is takes a hacker’s computer to crack your personal code depends on your password length and whether you use lower or uppercase characters, numbers and symbols. To avoid changing your password every 10 minutes, try something other than hacker-friendly passwords like “qwerty” or “password.”

If you’re using candy hearts this Valentine’s Day to ask someone “Will U Be Mine?” or to let them know you think they are “Hot Stuff,” chances are you’re giving your sweetheart Necco Candy Hearts.  A mainstay for many lovebirds, more than 250 billion Necco Candy Hearts have been produced since the turn of the 20^th century.

Are you ready for some football? The Super Bowl is this weekend and the Green Bay Packers and Pittsburgh Steelers are battling in one of the newest stadiums in the NFL, Cowboys Stadium. Viewers at home will no doubt be chowing down on some Super Bowl staples, but those in attendance have a staggering 286 concession areas to choose from, not including mobile carts & kiosks.

It’s winter in Minnesota which means it is cold…really cold. Our readers along the East Coast can commiserate as they have been experiencing the same frigid Arctic air normally reserved for the Midwest. The frosty temps we’ve seen this season, however, don’t compare with the -70 degrees C. (-96 degrees F.) recorded in Siberia in 1964, the coldest temperature recorded in the Northern Hemisphere.

The Blue Whale is the largest mammal to have ever lived on Earth, which means their calves enter the world as some of its biggest creatures. After nearly a year-long gestation, a baby blue whale weighs up to 3 tons (2.7 metric tons) and stretches to 25 feet (8 meters). Feeding on nothing but its mother’s milk, a calf gains about 200 pounds (91 kilograms) every day for its first year.

In 1970, the former USSR began drilling at the Kola Peninsula to see how far they could drill into the Earth’s crust. Drilling ceased in 1989 at a depth of 40, 230 feet and the hole remains the deepest artificial point on Earth. For a cool perspective on this fun fact, check out this great tool from the BBC.

Beat the winter blues and fight off the flu. How? By laughing! Not only does laughing lower the levels of stress hormones, it strengths the immune systems. The average adult only laughs 15 to 100 times a day (6-year-olds laugh an average of 300 times per day!)

As Minnesotans saw earlier this month, and our friends on the East Coast experienced this week, a foot of snow–while beautiful to look at–can cause major headaches for traveling. The Twin Cities received just over 17 inches of powder in early December. The same amount of moisture in the air in warmer months would have resulted in just over an inch of rain. The conversion typically used says that an inch (2.5 centimeters) of rain water is equivalent to 15 inches (38.1 centimeters) of dry, powdery snow.

Malls across the country will likely be bustling with last-minute shoppers this morning. In Minnesota, we have not one but two noteworthy malls shoppers can visit to complete their holiday gift-giving. In Edina, a Minneapolis suburb, shoppers can visit Southdale, the first enclosed climate-controlled suburban mall built in 1956. And of course, there is the Mall of America in Bloomington which is the size of 78 football fields—9.5 million square feet of shopping paradise.

Happy Holidays from SCG!

Green bean casserole, the holiday staple for many families, was invented in 1955 by Campbell’s Soup Company. Today Campbell’s sells an estimated $20 million worth of cream of mushroom soup to people following their recipe—or variations of it.