Friday 9/9/22
Celebrate:
Care Bears Share Your Care Day
International Buy a Priest a Beer Day
International Sudoku Day
National 401(K) Day
National Wiener Schnitzel Day
Stand Up To Cancer Day
Wonderful Weirdos Day
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Tester's Day
Commemorates the day in 1947 when the first actual bug was found in a computer—and by actual bug, we mean real and once-was-living bug. Scientists at Harvard University had been working on the Mark II Aiken Relay Calculator when they found a moth stuck between the two solenoid contacts of the electromechanical relay.
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National Teddy Bear Day
Dedicated to the stuffed bear that was named after the 26th President of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt. In November 1902, Roosevelt, an avid hunter, went on a hunting excursion organized by Mississippi's governor, Andrew Longino, in Smedes, Mississippi. Roosevelt was accompanied by some aides, other hunters, and reporters, as well as a hunting guide, Holt Collier, and his hunting dogs. After a few days without success, Roosevelt and the hunting dogs were on the trail of a black bear. Having thought that they had lost the bear, Roosevelt went back to camp, but Collier and his dogs kept searching. Collier and his dogs found the 235 pound bear, and the dogs circled it and began biting and attacking it. The bear killed one of the dogs, and Collier clubbed the bear over the head and tied it to a tree. He bugled for Roosevelt, who found the bear mauled from the the dogs, and refused to shoot it. He also forbade anyone else from shooting it, but as the bear was so injured, he had the bear put out of its misery by having it be killed with a hunting knife.
A few days later, a cartoon titled "Drawing the line in Mississippi", which showed Roosevelt refusing to shoot the bear, was drawn by Clifford Berryman, and appeared in the Washington Post. Rose and Morris Mitchom, store owners in New York City, saw the cartoon and were inspired to create the teddy bear, which they originally called "Teddy's bear".
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It's the full moon today. 5:58a was the peak.
This year, September is the Harvest Moon. That's the one that is closest to the fall equinox which is September 22nd. This full Moon rises at nearly the same time—around sunset—for several evenings in a row, giving farmers several extra evenings of moonlight and allowing them to finish their harvests before the frosts of fall arrive. The alternate name for this full moon is the Corn Moon.
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Bernard Shaw, the first chief news anchor for CNN when the network launched in 1980, has died at the age of 82.
Shaw spent more than 20 years with CNN and was known for keeping cool under pressure, even as he reported live from Baghdad during Operation Desert Storm in 2001.
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Dancing with the Stars will be returning for the 31st season on Monday, September 19th on Disney+, making it the first live series to debut on a streaming service. This year the series is hosted by supermodel and businesswoman Tyra Banks and new co-host, actor and television personality Alfonso Ribeiro.
The cast was announced yesterday and includes Real Housewife Teresa Giudice,
Jersey Shore’s Vinny, Charlie’s Angels star Cheryl Ladd, entertainer Wayne Brady (wasn’t he on masked singer?), Drag queen Shangela, and singer Jordin Sparks.
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Researchers from Mass General Research Institute believe they have scientific evidence that our brains are NOT meant to be awake after midnight.
The basic idea is that your internal biological circadian clock is tuned towards sleep after midnight . . . and staying up triggers changes in the brain that cause people to view the world more negatively.
This may lead to more impulsive behavior and high-risk decisions . . . including drinking, overeating, gambling, and criminal activity.
Of course, not everyone who stays up late is partying at the club . . . some are working as police officers, pilots, and health care workers. And the researchers believe their findings could have "important implications" for those people, including impacts to human behavior, decision-making, and job performance.
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Today's Useless Fact of the Day - The people who created the mp3 used the same song over and over to test their compression: "Tom's Diner" by Suzanne Vega. They picked it because, quote, "a warm, acapella voice" is the hardest thing to compress.
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