Monday 11/7/22
Celebrate:
ME!
Hug a Bear Day
Job Action Day
Little League Girls Day
National Bittersweet Chocolate with Almonds Day
National Canine Lymphoma Awareness Day
National Retinol Day
Notary Public Day
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Once again there were no winning tickets that matched all six numbers drawn in Saturday night's Powerball drawing.
That means the jackpot rolls over to a new record grand prize of $1.9 billion for Monday's drawing, according to USA Today. The cash value has risen to $929.1 million. The Powerball prize hasn't been won in more than three months.
The next drawing is tonight! Go get that ticket!
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A 19-year-old man in Pennsylvania named Cole Williams was busted last month after he was caught with a six-month-old kangaroo, which he was trying to sell on Facebook Marketplace.
Someone ratted him out, and when officials paid Cole a visit, they found the kangaroo hidden in his bedroom closet.
The kangaroo was illegally imported, but the details of how it got there are unclear.
The kangaroo was seized and taken to a facility where it will be cared for.
Cole pleaded guilty to several charges, but it sounds like he'll get off with undisclosed fines.
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A man in Syracuse, New York was apparently fed up with the people in his apartment last Friday . . . and he wanted them to leave. So he went into the bathroom and lit the shower curtain on fire.
It's unclear if a fire alarm went off, or someone called 911 . . . but the police showed up . . . saw the shower curtain burning on the floor . . . and stomped it out. They also noted that the floor and the door frame were burned.
39-year-old Daniel Hart was arrested and charged with second-degree arson, which is a felony. Thankfully, it sounds like the fire didn't get out of control, and no one was hurt. But the cops noted that he didn't just endanger the lives of the people in the apartment . . . the building has 12 other units.
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Are you a mosquito magnet? If so, scientists may have finally figured out why. And unfortunately, there might be nothing you can do about it.
It's well known that mosquitos love some people and ignore others. But we've never known why. Some thought certain blood types attracted them, or maybe the color of your clothes. But there's never been much evidence to back it up.
Now researchers at Rockefeller University in New York think they found the answer. It's your BODY ODOR . . . but not the kind that could clear out a room.
They had people wear nylon stockings on their arms for six hours to let their scent transfer to the material. Then they looked at which nylons mosquitos loved most.
Some were 100 times more attractive to them than others. And they all had one thing in common. The oil in the person's skin had more of something called "carboxylic acid." (car-bock-SILL-ick)
It's an acid that helps keep our skin moisturized and protected, and some people just produce more of it. Humans can't really smell it, but mosquitos can.
The study found changing your diet or showering more doesn't make a difference. So if mosquitos love you, they might always love you.
The only hope is that the study leads to new types of bug repellents. Until then, there's not much you can do about it.
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In London, you don't catch the Christmas spirit — it catches you. Two giant silver ornaments unexpectedly tore down its streets earlier this week, forcing cyclists and drivers to swerve out of their path.
The mirrored balls, larger than cars, were dislodged from an art installation by heavy winds.
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Today's Useless Fact of the Day - The letters in "SOS" don't stand for anything. It just means three dots, three dashes, three dots in Morse Code, which was considered the least confusing way to call for help. so Save Our Ships is more of a backronym...it came later.
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