Thursday 10/13/22
Celebrate:
English Language Day
Good Samaritan Day
International Day for Disaster Reduction
International Day for Failure
International Plain Language Day
International Suit Up Day
Metastatic Breast Cancer Awareness Day
National M&M Day
No Bra Day
National Train Your Brain Day
National Yorkshire Pudding Day
Ombuds Day
Silly Sayings Day
The US Navy's Birthday
Treat Yo' Self Day
World Sight Day
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Mega Millions is now at estimated $494 million for Friday Nights' Drawing.
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A new poll asked people what things they wish they could do freely in public and the results spanned everything from "good" deeds to "innocently" adjusting themselves. Here's the Top 10:
1. Complimenting a stranger.
2. Going to the movies alone.
3. Walking down the street singing loudly.
4. Telling someone you love them.
5. Listening to something without headphones.
6. Passing gas or burping openly, and loudly.
7. Walking barefoot.
8. Doing yoga stretches in the park.
9. Adjusting your underwear.
10. Dancing in the street.
Thankfully people apparently don't think they should be able to do gross stuff, like picking their nose, biting their nails, popping pimples, spitting, peeing, or touching things with Cheeto fingers.
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A poll asked 1,000 male office workers how often they repeat what they wear to work. 52% say they have about five different looks, and they'll often re-wear the same rotation every week.
About one in five admit to wearing the same shirt at least THREE times in the same week . . . and one in 10 men say they wear the same shirt four times a week.
We're assuming they wash the shirts in-between uses, but that's unclear.
The men in the poll admitted that, on average, they only wear 41% of their available wardrobe.
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Last month NASA tried to knock an asteroid off course — and it worked! The space agency launched the Dart spacecraft right into a space rock that was millions of miles away. This time Earth was not in any danger, but it's good to know that if we should find ourselves under threat from space, we might have a way to save humankind.
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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg laid out the updates for his vision of the metaverse at its annual VR developers conference Connect 22.
In addition to the Meta Quest Pro, a $1,500 headset built for working in a virtual world, the company announced partnerships with Microsoft and NBCUniversal. But the most exciting news? Avatars in Meta’s virtual Horizon Worlds will no longer just be floating torsos. That’s right, we’re all getting virtual legs to explore the metaverse.
Now if we can just get heads on those creepy dog like robots. Yikes those freak me out!!!
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We are on Season 21 of The Voice and it seems that Season 23 of “The Voice” will welcome some new faces and say goodbye to the hit show’s longest-tenured coach.
Next season will be Blake Shelton’s last on the show, NBC revealed in a statement on Tuesday, and Chance the Rapper and former One Direction member Niall Horan are set to join as first-time coaches.
Kelly Clarkson will round out the coach lineup in that season, set to debut next spring,
“I’ve been wrestling with this for a while and I’ve decided that it’s time for me to step away from ‘The Voice,’” Shelton said in a statement via the network. “This show has changed my life in every way for the better and it will always feel like home to me.”
Shelton has been a mainstay since the show’s inception in 2011, with eight wins under his belt. He has also coached 15 artists whose songs have hit #1 on the iTunes Top Songs chart.
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The site HauntPay.com recently asked more than 2,000 "haunt industry professionals" what we can expect for this year.
17% of haunt attractions offer corn mazes . . . 16% have some sort of indoor walkthrough, like a haunted house . . . 15% have an outdoor walkthrough . . . 14% offer a haunted hayride . . . 13% have an escape game available . . . and 12% offer "zombie paintball."
When asked about admission fees, 40% said to expect something in the $21 to $30 range. 28% say it'll cost more . . . usually between $31 to $40. And 32% say it'll cost less, mostly in the $11 to $20 range.
33% of haunts have a "pay-what-you-can" or donation ticketing system, which may go to charity. Believe it or not, more than 72% of haunts are affiliated with a nonprofit organization . . . either direct ownership or donating a portion of proceeds.
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Today's Useless Fact of the Day - Fried chicken was introduced to America by immigrants from Scotland who settled in the south.
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