Gadfly Bites 5/20/26—Graduation, with sprinkles on top

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1. Hilliard Darby High School was forced to reschedule their graduation ceremony at the last minute—from today to last night —because Bruno Mars was going to be performing nearby and the potential for an evening traffic nightmare gave all the adults agita. Enterprising students tried to get Mr. Mars to come to graduation (since he was in between gigs and because they figured he owed them, right?). He didn’t show up in person, but he did pay for a local ice cream purveyor to bring a food truck full of their goodies to the venue and serve up sundaes for all the graduates. Awesome! (Columbus Dispatch, 5/19/26)

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