Thursday 10/17/24
Celebrate:
Black Poetry Day
Conflict Resolution Day
Edge Day
Forgive an Ex Day
Four Prunes Day - apparently for dietary regularity you should eat between four and nine prunes in a sitting - NO THANK YOU!
Get to Know Your Customers Day
International Credit Union Day
International Day for the Eradication of Poverty
International Shake Out Day
Mulligan Day
National Get Smart About Credit Day
National Pasta Day
National Playing Card Collection Day
Pay Back a Friend Day
Spirit Day - take a stand against bullying and remember gay teens who had died by suicide
Spreadsheet Day
Wear Something Gaudy Day
World Trauma Day
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Former One Direction singer Liam Payne was found dead outside a hotel in Buenos Aires after the 31-year-old fell from his third-floor room balcony, Argentine police said on Wednesday.
Read more here from Reuters.
This was his biggest solo single.
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A group in Japan just set a world record on Sunday for most people pointing at the sky all at once.
That's all they did. They just pointed straight up with one finger and held it for 30 seconds. Even the number was unimpressive . . . 507 people.
It's the type of record you'd only set because no one ever thought to before. Guinness apparently thought it was worthy of being enshrined in the record books.
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Today's AskReddit Question - What's something that instantly disgusts you? People are debating which things are the worst and which things aren't that big of a deal.
1. Maggots.
2. Cockroaches.
3. Animal abuse.
4. People who mistreat others as "inferior," including service workers, children, and those with special needs.
5. Seeing someone littering.
6. Seeing someone talking or chewing with their mouth open.
7. Seeing (or even hearing) someone vomit. Or smelling it.
8. Rancid (or even just "bad") breath.
9. Body odor.
10. Boogers.
11. Someone biting their nails.
12. Long toenails . . . or crusty feet.
13. Dirty socks.
14. An unflushed toilet.
15. A bandaid in a pool.
16. Milk that smells bad . . . or tastes chunky.
17. Moldy food.
18. Food splatters in the microwave.
19. The sounds of someone who has a bad cold . . . the constant snorting, or worse: The sucking back of phlegm into their nose and throat.
20. Children.
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One of the supposed new trends we could see in 2025 is: one-legged pants.. So, one of your legs is covered in a pant-leg, like usual . . . and the other is mostly exposed as if you were wearing a mini-skirt or short shorts.
Several fancy fashion companies have had models wearing these on runways, and one even has these "pants" as part of a collection of workplace womenswear for next spring.
It sounds silly, and it is . . . but the designers seem excited about its "asymmetrical" look . . . kind of like how there have been trends of wearing mismatched socks and footwear.
These seem to be targeted mostly at women, as an eveningwear thing for flashy occasions.
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FedEx made a special delivery to the National Zoo in Washington DC yesterday.
A pair of 3-year-old pandas male Bao Li and female Qing Bao are part of a 10-year breeding and research agreement between China and the U.S.
The pandas will spend the next 30 days in quarantine and then have time to acclimate to the zoo's new habitat. They will debut to the public in January.
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Today is the full Hunter's Moon. It’s also the biggest and brightest Supermoon as it is the nearest to earth this year.
Other Native American names for the moon are Drying Rice Moon, Falling Leaves Moon, Freezing Moon, and Migrating Moon.
Also don’t forget to look for the comet that’s visiting. Atlas can be seen by looking to the West in the evenings.
Look for Venus first, the brightest and most identifiable object in that direction.
Look to the upper right, about two fists (extend your arm and place two fists together) and you should be able to see the comet and its extended tail.
It will get higher each night, but also dimmer and you'll need binoculars.
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Today's Useless Fact of the Day - Originally, Steven Spielberg was developing "Cape Fear" and Martin Scorsese was developing "Schindler's List". Neither of them were into their own project, so they decided to trade movies.
Schindler's went on to win Best Picture and Best Director at the Oscars.
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