Wednesday 10/11/23
Celebrate:
You Go, Girl Day
Emergency Nurses Day
International Day of the Girl Child
International Top Spinning Day
Kraken Day - also known as Myths and Legends Day
National Bring Your Teddy Bear to Work and School Day
National Coming Out Day
National Fossil Day
National It's My Party Day
National Kimberly Day
National Pet Obesity Awareness Day
National Sausage Pizza Day
National Stop Bullying Day
National Take Your Parents to Lunch Day
Southern Food Heritage Day
Stop America's Violence Everywhere Today
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Nobody won the Powerball jackpot Monday, which boosts the prize to an estimated $1.73 billion for Wednesday's drawing (or a lump sum of $756.6 million). No winner for 35 consecutive drawings reflects the game’s long odds of 1 in 292.2 million.
My theory is I haven’t played yet, the game I play someone else will win and my $$$ were for nothing.
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There’s a Reddit thread where people are takling about the everyday words that they know they're going to stumble over. Here are a few highlights:
1. Rural
2. Brewery
3. Marlboro
4. Posthumously
5. Worcestershire sauce
6. Sixth
7. Anemone
8. Hamster. (It's not "hampster.")
9. Espresso. (It's not "expresso.")
10. Acai, pronounced "Ah-sa-ee."
11. Realtor
12. Negligible
13. Gyro
14. Proselytize
15. Abominable
16. Metastasized
17. Phenomenon
18. February
19. Amortization
20. Someone said, "For some reason I really have to focus when I say "rear wheel drive."
See the full thread here.
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Today's Useless Fact of the Day - It costs 8-and-a-half cents to produce a $100 bill which is the most common paper currency in the US.
It was $1 bills until 2017, when they were surpassed by $100 bills.
20 years ago, there were 8 billion $1 bills in circulation, compared to 4.6 billion $100 bills almost half as many. Now, there are 14.3 billion $1 bills out there, compared to a whopping 18.5 billion $100 bills or 30% more
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