Tuesday 3/8/22
Celebrate National Unique Names, Organize Your Home Office, Be Nasty, International Women's, Girls Write Now, Proofreading, and Peanut Cluster Day.
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Right now, you can sign up online to get a "boarding pass" for the Artemis I mission, which is expected to blast off and orbit the moon this May or June.
Every seat is free, in a way. Artemis I will be an uncrewed test flight for future lunar missions. Signing up with NASA gets your name added to a flash drive aboard the unoccupied crew capsule, and a flashy digital boarding pass as proof.
Powered by NASA's most powerful rocket to date, the Space Launch System, the Artemis I mission will see the uncrewed Orion spacecraft take off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida and spend several days circling the moon before returning to earth. If all goes according to plan, the Artemis 2 mission will perform a crewed lunar flyby in 2024.
The ultimate goal of the Artemis program is to put humans back on the moon by 2025, which is 53 years after the last crewed lunar mission, Apollo 17. In Greek mythology, Artemis fittingly is Apollo's twin sister and the moon's goddess.
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A new survey found that the average person has 26 clothing items that basically never see the light of day, and 65% of people say they have unworn clothes that still have the tags on them.
Just 6% of people claim they have worn everything they own at least once.
So why do we have stuff we don't wear? 20% say they keep clothing for "sentimental reasons," so maybe they're gifts or they've been passed down from family members.
31% say they've bought stuff on a whim, but then realized it didn't really suit them. And others say they intend on wearing the clothes, they just got "buried."
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A dog food company is running a promotion where they'll pay you more than $6,500 to switch your dog's food to theirs for two months. Cool, right?
Well, there's one massive catch. During those two months, you also have to collect your dog's poo, analyze it, smell it, and keep a diary on how it may change day-by-day. Especially with regard to how it smells.
It's a plant-based company called Omni, and they're looking to prove that their dog food has a positive effect on a dog's "digestion, stool odor, and general health." So, they want to see your comprehensive logs on your dog's poo.
But...it might not be available in the US.
Omni is based in the U.K., and while they don't specifically exclude the US, they don't normally ship their dog food here, so it doesn't sound like Americans would be accepted.
You were excited for a minute weren't you...hahah
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Allergy season is coming..(or here) A 38-year-old guy in New York told his doctor he'd been having a hard time breathing for several years and didn't know why.
So they shoved a tiny camera up his right nostril and discovered a tooth growing inside his nose.
It was an incisor, which are the teeth in the front of your mouth and they could clearly see it poking out into his nasal cavity.
Extra teeth aren't unheard of, but usually show up near the roof of your mouth, not way up inside your nose.
Luckily, he's okay. They did surgery to remove the tooth, and he's breathing easier now.
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Musician Morris Day, a former bandmate of Prince, has a bone to pick with the late star's estate.
Day has served as the lead singer of Morris Day and The Time for four decades — but now claims that Prince's estate has forced him to stop using the name of the band the "Purple Rain" singer created in the early '80s.
"I've given 40 years of my life building up a name and legacy that Prince and I came up with. A name that while he was alive, he had no problem with me using," Day, 64, wrote on Instagram Thursday. "I literally put my blood, sweat and tears into bringing value to that name."
Now that Prince is no longer with us – suddenly, the people who control his multi million dollar estate, want to rewrite history by taking my name away from me, thus impacting how I feed my family," Day wrote. "So as of now, per the Prince Estate, I can no longer use Morris Day & The Time in any capacity."
A representative for Prince's estate, which is administered by Comerica Bank & Trust, told People Magazine in a statement that Day's version of events is "not entirely accurate."
"Given Prince's longstanding history with Morris Day and what the Estate thought were amicable discussions, the Prince Estate was surprised and disappointed to see his recent post," the statement read. "The Estate is open to working proactively with Morris to resolve this matter."
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Today's Useless Fact of the Day - According to one scientific study, the most universally-liked scent is lime.
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