Thursday 9/22/22
Celebrate:
Business Women's Day
Chainmail Day
Dear Diary Day
Hobbit Day - the birthday of the hobbits Bilbo and Frodo Baggins.
International Day of Radiant Peace
National Centenarian's Day
National Elephant Appreciation Day
National Falls Prevention Awareness Day
National Girls' Night In Day
National Ice Cream Cone Day
National Legwear Day
National Online Recovery Day
National White Chocolate Day
Proposal Day
Remember Me Thursday
The First Day of Fall
World Carefree Day
World Rhino Day
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Welcome to Fall - The fall equinox arrives today at 9:04pm.
The fall equinox has been a day of celebration for cultures since ancient days. People tracked the transitions of the Earth’s journeys around the Sun.
At Machu Picchu in Peru, an ancient stone monument called Intihuatana—which means “Hitching Post of the Sun”—serves as a solar clock to mark the dates of the equinoxes and solstices.
In Mexico, the Mayans built a giant pyramid called Chichen Itza. On the equinoxes, it looks as if a snake made of light slithers down the pyramid’s steps.
In England, Stonehenge was also built with the equinoxes and solstices in mind.
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The Social Security Administration has released data on people who have changed their names over the past five years.
Some may have been changed by the parents soon after birth . . . others people may have changed on their own later on.
They have lists of names that were changed the most . . . and the most popular new names people chose.
Here are the 10 most-changed names: Issac . . . Chole . . . Aiden . . . Conner . . . Elliot . . . Michael . . . James . . . Isabella . . . Sophia . . . and David.
The "Issacs" and "Choles" might just be looking to "fix" the spelling, because the top two most popular newly-adopted names are: ISAAC and CHLOE.
Number Three is Sebastian.
The rest of the Top 10 adopted names are: William . . . Olivia . . . Michael . . . Elijah . . . Matthew . . . Connor . . . and Jonathan.
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Have you heard of this trick before, and does it work for you? There's a TikTok "hack" going viral that's supposed to tell you if a pair of jeans will fit or not, without having to try them on.
While they're zipped up and buttoned, just take the waistband and wrap it around your NECK.
It's not a new trick. There are lots of posts about it online, and the "Today" show even covered it a few years ago. But it's going viral again after some influencer posted about it.
The basic idea is that the average person's waist is twice the circumference of their neck. Which might be true if you still fit into your jeans from high school. But it doesn't work for everyone.
They're not pulling it out of nowhere though. There's an old saying that, "twice around the neck" equals "once around the waist." Also, twice around your WRIST is supposed to equal once around your neck.
Those are just rules of thumb though. So maybe just stop being lazy and try pants on before you buy them.
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Back in 2001 . . . in the early days of the reality TV boom . . . ABC had a show called "The Mole".
It featured a group of contestants working together on a series of challenges. Each successful task would add money to a pot that only ONE of them would eventually win.
But one of the contestants was secretly THE MOLE . . . whose job was to work AGAINST the contestants and try to make sure they FAILED.
Well, Netflix is bringing it back this fall. There's no word on an exact release date, but the show was already shot last year.
The original version aired for two seasons with Anderson Cooper as host, then there were two more CELEBRITY seasons hosted by Ahmad Rashad. ABC revived it in 2008, but it only lasted one summer.
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The WHO wants the internet's help in renaming monkeypox. Some of the suggestions so far include Mpox and (of course) Poxy McPoxface.
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Today's Useless Fact of the Day - The only state with a one-syllable name is . . . Maine.
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