Tuesday 10/17/23
Celebrate:
Black Poetry Day
Edge Day
Forgive an Ex Day
Four Prunes Day
Information Overload Awareness Day
Mulligan Day
National Pasta Day
National Pharmacy Technician Day
National Playing Card Collection Day
Pay Back a Friend Day
Spreadsheet Day
Wear Something Gaudy Day
World Trauma Day
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Britney Spears released a "trailer" for her upcoming book, "The Woman In Me". It's just text appearing on a screen. Here's what it says:
"I actually envy the people who know how to make fame work for them. My demeanor was innocent, and it wasn't an act. I didn't know what I was doing.
"It felt like I was living on the edge of a cliff. I don't want it to be real; this is just a dream. If you stood up for me when I couldn't stand up for myself: from the bottom of my heart, thank you.
"No one knows what I really thought until now."
"The Woman In Me" comes out a week from tomorrow, and the audio version will be mostly narrated by Michelle Williams.
Britney says, quote, "Reliving everything has been exciting, heart-wrenching, and emotional, to say the least. For those reasons, I will only be reading a small part of my audiobook."
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Last night on The Wonderful World of Disney, they showed Encanto, which landed at #14 on MovieWeb.com's list of the best Disney animated movie soundtracks.
Disney has won more than its share of Grammy awards and even Oscars for its animated soundtracks.
Here they are, ranked:
1. "The Lion King" (1994)
2. "Beauty and the Beast" (1991)
3. "The Jungle Book" (1967)
4. "Aladdin" (1992)
5. "Frozen" (2013)
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A 17-year-old West Australian has taken out the Guinness World Record for the fastest time solving a Rubik's cube in freefall at around 200 kilometers an hour.
Sam Sieracki solved a Rubik's Cube in 28.25 seconds while skydiving, after jumping out of an airplane at 14,000 feet over Jurien Bay.
“It’s really intense. It’s very loud, because you’ve got all the wind in your face,” Sam said.
“So it’s a lot harder to concentrate than if I’m just on the ground solving it … my record on the ground is a lot faster than in air – it’s about 6.5 seconds.”
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Capt. Daniel Reynolds graduated from the U.S. military’s Ranger School this week, becoming the first Space Force Guardian to earn a Ranger tab. He is effectively the military’s first “Space Ranger.”
Wait...so is he our first Guardian of the Galaxy? Should we call him Star Lord?
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Today's Useless Fact of the Day - The U.S. is the third most populous country in the world, behind China and India. But China and India are SO far ahead in population that if you added one BILLION more people to the U.S., we'd STILL be third.
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