Tuesday 10/12/21
Celebrate National Savings, Freethought, Farmer's, Gumbo, and Vermont Day.
Vermont day celebrates the 14th state to join the United States. The state derives its name from French words vert for green and mont for mountain.
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William Shatner's much-anticipated trip to the edge of space will have to wait a day because high winds in west Texas prompted spaceflight company Blue Origin to postpone the voyage.
Originally scheduled for Today, the launch from the spaceport in Van Horn, Texas, will now take place at 8:30 a.m. Wednesday, Blue Origin said in a statement Sunday.
This was seen on the internet.
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Let's chalk it up to the south.
Two young men who took a vehicle with a "free car" sign on it and car keys inside later discovered a big surprise in the trunk....a dead body.
Authorities say the men found the nude body of 34-year-old Anthony McCrillis early Sunday morning after they drove the Acura from Byram, Miss., to a family member's home in Copiah County.
Stuart says the two young men immediately called 911 and remained on the scene until law enforcement showed up.
Not much more is known.
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A third of Americans admit they've intentionally bought too much Halloween candy before, so they'd have leftover candy they could eat themselves.
40% of us have also bought additional Halloween candy in November, because the discounts are too hard to resist.
More stats
Don't buy your candy too early: More than a third of adults have accidentally snacked on Halloween candy throughout the entire month of October before.
53% of parents plan to steal some of their kids' haul this year, and over half of them won't feel too guilty about it. That includes 32% who said zero guilt.
41% of parents usually take their kids to a different neighborhood to trick-or-treat. Either because it's safer, more walkable, or there's just more candy to be had.
23% of Americans who didn't buy candy have had to pretend they weren't home when trick-or-treaters showed up at their door.
One in nine people say they've handed out healthy treats on Halloween instead of candy.
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Buzzfeed staff writer Salimeh McCullough took time to rank 40 of the most raved-about cookies from "not worth the hype" to "these couldn't get any better." Remember this is her personal preference list.
The top spot goes to Golden Oreos because, "These are hands down the best cookie on the market. This may be an unpopular opinion, but these taste way better than the regular Oreos the THIN Golden Oreos."
Toll House Chocolate Chip Cookies are second, followed by Original Oreos, Keebler 'Fudge Stripes' Cookies, Pepperidge Farm Farmhouse Milk Chocolate Chip Cookies, Nutter Butter, and Chips Ahoy Original.
The rest of the Top 10 is: Pillsbury Holiday Sugar Cookies, Mrs. Fields Milk Chocolate Chip Cookies, and Entenmann's Milk Chocolate Chip cookies.
In last place, are Fig Newtons. "If I never had to see a Fig Newton ever again, I wouldn't be mad at all."
Those LoftHouse frosted sugar cookies made #39 on her list. She should be shot.
See her full list here. (she clearly hates cookies)
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