9/30/26 - Halloween Colors, Wash Your Sheets and Towels, and The Flintstones
Wednesday 9/30/26
The last day of September
Celebrate:
Ask a Stupid Question Day
Chewing Gum Day
Extra Virgin Olive Oil Day
International Podcast Day
International Thunderbirds Day
International Translation Day
National AI at Work Day
National Hot Mulled Cider Day
National Love People Day
National Mud Pack Day
National PrepareAthon! Day
National Souffle Potato Day
National Women's Health and Fitness Day
Orange Shirt Day
The Time for Yoga
World Dense Breast Day
World School Milk Day
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Halloween Colors - Black and Orange!
Why?
Samhain, the ancient Celtic festival traditionally celebrated at the end of October, marked the seasonal shift from the lighter half of the year into winter, when the days grew shorter and the nights seemed to take over. “Black is a representation of the dark months that come with winter,” explains witchcraft expert Whiskey Stevens.
“It is believed that during Samhain, the veil between worlds grows thin, making it easier for those who wish to communicate with spirits and ancestors,” says Stevens. Tributes and offerings were made in their honor, and black could take on another meaning as a color associated with mourning and death.
Samhain was ushering in the harvest time; people would have seen the trees turn orange after months of greenery. But the orange also relates to another important component of the ancient Samhain celebrations: fire. “Orange is representative of the fire that burns during the festival of Samhain and during the winter months,” Stevens explains. “It also corresponds to the leaves that have changed color and of the harvest itself.”
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CableTV.com is hiring three “thrillterns” to watch horror movies and rank the best horror characters for their Bloodstream programming campaign.
Three winners will be chosen to earn $666 each and a $50 UberEats gift card to watch a curated lineup of horror movies through streaming services, while obsessing over horror’s best characters and ranking them to be featured in a CableTV.com article.
They will be ranking the best jump scares and skin-crawling sequences. Characters can be ranked based on their bravery or their most brutal behavior.
October 11th is the deadline; register here.
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Across the United States, a handful of cities are known for smelling, well, better than the rest. Using several data sets, McLuck sniffed through the aromas to reveal the top best-smelling cities in America.
The top five: Boston, Washington DC, San Francisco, Seattle, and Philadelphia.
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In a scene right out of Shanknado, a shark was seen swimming in the nor’easter-flooded streets of New Jersey this weekend.
Thankfully, the shark appears to be a “harmless” dogfish, a type of shark common to the area and one without sharp teeth, according to Dr. Greg Skomal, a white shark expert with the Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries.
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60 years after Julie Andrews burst into song on the rolling hills of Salzburg, Austria, there is now a Sound of Music museum!
Sound of Music Salzburg, devoted entirely to the pop culture phenomenon and the true story that inspired it, opened Sept 20 in the city where it all began. Located on the grounds of the 17th-century Hellbrunn Palace, the museum features over 450 items, including props, costumes, and sound recordings from the movie, as well as exhibits related to the real von Trapps.
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According to science, how often should you wash your sheets and towels?
Statistically speaking, most of us are not washing our bedding and bath things nearly enough. It’s generally recommended that people wash their bedsheets and bath towels every one to two weeks, using hot water.
BUT
A study conducted by Sleep Advisor showed the average person pushed it to around 24 days (25 for pillowcases alone). Single men tend to be worse, as a UK study found, with a majority of them holding off on washing or changing bedsheets for four months.
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Today's Useless Fact of the Day - 1982 saw the premiere of Cheers and it ran for 11 years.
Also today in 1960 it was the premiere of The Flintstones. The first animated series to air in primetime on ABC. (modeled after The Honeymooners)
It ran for six seasons and 166 episodes, holding the record as the longest-running prime-time animated series for nearly three decades until The Simpsons surpassed it in 1997.
The 1963 episode where Wilma gives birth to Pebbles marked a major television milestone: it was the first time a main character's pregnancy and childbirth were depicted in a prime-time series.
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