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Dogs can learn up to 250 words and gestures. The finding is based on a language development test, revealing average dogs can learn 165 words (similar to a 2-year-old child), including signals and gestures, and dogs in the top 20 percent in intelligence can learn 250 words.

Happy Columbus Never Met An Indigenous Person He Didn’t Kill or Enslave Day! I can’t even imagine how many more indigenous persons Columbus may have murdered if he didn’t have the day off. Columbus Day originated as a celebration of Italian-American heritage and was first held in San Francisco in 1869. The first state-wide celebrationContinue reading “I usually want to murder everyone after a long and crowded commute”

October 11, 1961 –Leonard ‘Chico‘ Marx, the oldest of the Marx Brothers, died on this date. Chico was a compulsive womanizer and had a lifelong gambling habit. His addiction cost him millions of dollars by his own account. His brother, Gummo Marx, in an interview years after Chico’s death, said, “Chico’s favorite people were actorsContinue reading “Swordfish, boss”

October 11, 1975 – The long running (some say too long running) comedy variety show started at 11:30 PM, on this date, with George Carlin as its host. It was called NBC’s Saturday Night, because ABC featured a program at the same time titled Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell. After ABC canceled the CosellContinue reading “Saturday Night Live”

We here at ACME continue to salute International Cephalopod Awareness Days, celebrated October 8th through the 12th. Today we celebrate Myths and Legends Day, saluting all the fantastical cephalopods of movies, literature and legend. Demand Euphoria!

Soviet Cosmonauts took shotguns to space with them. This wasn’t to fight off any capitalist aliens they might encounter in space. It was for when they returned to Earth in case they landed in Siberia and had to fend off hungry bears.

October 10, 1964 –The Shangri-Las released their operatic hit, Leader of the Pack, on this date. This was written by Ellie Greenwich, Jeff Barry and producer Shadow Morton. Morton was looking for a follow-up to the first Shangri-Las‘ hit, Remember (Walking in the Sand). He had a motorcycle and was part of a motorcycle gangContinue reading “By the way, where’d you meet him?”

(With your newsfeed jam packed with other, more heady news, some may not remember that we are celebrating cephalopods this week) Today we also celebrate Squid Day/Cuttlefish Day. Calamari could loom large in your day today – celebrate responsibly. Demand Euphoria!

October 9, 1958 –Pope Pius XII suffered a most ‘unfortunate‘ accident after his demise. The Pope died during an exceptionally hot summer. When Pius died, Professor Riccardo Galeazzi-Lisi who was treating the ill pontiff (Galeazzi-Lisi was not a doctor but an optometrist) turned embalmer, trying to hide his crimes. Rather than slow the process ofContinue reading “Maybe you don’t want to know this”

October 9, 1000 –Leif Ericson discovered Vinland and became the first known European to walk in North America, on this date (or not). In 1964, the United States Congress authorized and requested the President to proclaim October 9 of each year as Leif Erikson Day. The day after Leif Ericson Day in 1965, Yale UniversityContinue reading “Happy Leif Ericson Day!”