Thursday 10/26/23
Celebrate:
Horseless Carriage Day
National Financial Crime Fighter Day
National Mincemeat Day
National Mule Day
National Pumpkin Day
Texas Chicken Fried Steak Day
Vote Early Day
Worldwide Howl at the Moon Night.
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The World Series is all set after the Arizona Diamondbacks beat the Philadelphia Phillies in Game 7 of their NL pennant matchup. The AL’s Texas Rangers will host Game 1 of the World Series this Friday night.
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Baseball/softball, Lacrosse, and cricket will be returning to the 2028 Olympic Games in LA.
New to the Olympics are Flag football and squash.
Cricket hasn't been in since 1900, Lacrosse was played last in 1904 and 1908, Baseball/Softballl were most recently in 2020.
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Richard Roundtree, the actor best known for playing the title role in Gordon Parks' 1971 action thriller "Shaft," died Tuesday of pancreatic cancer. He was 81. Roundtree made his feature debut with his portrayal of detective John Shaft in the classic that helped start a decade of so-called Blaxploitation filmmaking.
He's a bad..... Shut Your Mouth!...I'm talking about Shaft
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According to TikTok, we should all be storing a roll of toilet paper in the fridge.
No..it's not for a nice cooling effect when you bring it back to the bathroom but it's supposed to absorb MOISTURE in your fridge and help with unpleasant odors.
So does it actually work? YES, apparently. But probably not as well as TikTok claims.
Toilet paper is absorbent. So it'll soak up some of that extra moisture. But eventually, you'll just have a wet roll of paper hanging out by your vegetables.
Experts say it can work in a pinch but in general, you're better off keeping a box of baking soda in there like a normal person.
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Two brothers in Wisconsin . . . aged 10 and 11 . . . just broke the record for the world's largest grilled cheese sandwich. Almost 11 feet long, and more than 6 feet wide. It required over 300 pounds of dough and 60 pounds of cheese. They used the event to raise money for local food banks.
The previous Guinness World Record for the largest grilled cheese sandwich was held by the Cabot Creamery of Vermont. They set the record in 2000. It weighed 320 pounds and measured 5 feet by 10 feet by half an inch by 2 and a half inches.
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Here's a crazy way to meet: Back in 2016, a 22-year-old woman in New York called the cops when she came home and found a guy sleeping on her couch.
It turned out he'd been drinking . . . tried to walk to a friend's place . . . walked into the wrong house . . . and passed out. He got arrested, but she eventually dropped the charges when she found out what happened.
He showed up at her doorstep with flowers to apologize and ended up meeting her parents. Then they started talking . . . became friends . . . and now seven years later, they're married. They just had their first kid in February.
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A 30-year-old dad in Connecticut called the cops to report his kid missing after he popped into a grocery store, and they weren't in the car when he got back. But it turned out he was just DRUNK, and didn't realize he forgot his kid at home. He was arrested on several charges.
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Orkin just put out their annual list of the raattiest cities in America. They do it by looking at how many people have needed an exterminator in the last year.
And for the NINTH year in a row, Chicago is #1.
L.A. is second, followed by New York City, which is the home of 'Pizza Rat' . . . Washington D.C. . . . San Francisco . . . Philadelphia . . . Baltimore . . . Denver . . . Detroit . . . and Cleveland.
One of the cities with the biggest drops in rats is Syracuse NY.
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Today's Useless Fact of the Day - Crayola has been owned by Hallmark since 1984. (all scripts for Hallmark movies must be written in crayon.)
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