A Giant Sausage
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It is Monday June 15th, Let’s start the podcast!
IT HAPPENED TODAY
• 1884: The world’s first roller coaster opened at Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York. It was called the Gravity Pleasure Switchback Railway. The cars traveled at 6 miles per hour.
• 1920: The United States Postal Service ruled that children may not be sent via parcel post.
• 1966: The United States Supreme Court ruled in Miranda v. Arizona that the police must inform suspects of their rights before questioning them.
• 1996: Bomb disposal experts swung into action when a bomb was reported bobbing around in Hong Kong harbor. The “bomb” turned out to be a giant sausage.
• 1997: Michael Jordan scored 39 points as the Chicago Bulls beat the Utah Jazz 90-86 to win their fifth NBA championship in seven years.
• 2005: In Olathe, Kansas, a 17-year-old student was charged with battery after he threw up on his Spanish teacher. Witnesses told police the boy did it on purpose. A month later the juvenile was convicted and sentenced to four months cleaning up vomit from police cars.
• 2014: A water-embedded rock layer was found deep inside the earth; the layer stores three times the water found in all the earth’s oceans.
SPECIAL EVENTS
• Nature Photography Day
• National Day of Prayer for Law Enforcement Officers
• Lobster Day
NUMBER FOR THE DAY
4 billion: Trees planted in Ethiopia in 2019. The country is planning to plant a total of 20 billion seedlings by 2024, in an attempt to build climate resilience in the nation.
NEWS ATTACK!
- After recovering from COVID-19 a guy in Seattle got a hospital bill for $1.1 million.
- A woman in Spain who just turned 105 gives credit for her longevity to drinking a can of beer every day.
- Medical research finds that the majority of American kids are dehydrated.
- A Florida woman called 911 because she was cheated in a marijuana deal. [
- One out of every four drivers say they’ve fallen asleep at the wheel.
- Sunday is Father’s Day.
- A woman has hatched three ducklings from eggs she bought in a British supermarket (Waitrose). Charli Lello put the eggs in an incubator as an experiment to pass the time after being furloughed.
- You start becoming your father at age 37, according to a new survey. Not only that, but 68 percent of those studied say they feel more like their father with every passing year.
- In New Mexico, someone called police to report her house may have been burglarized because someone stepped in her dog’s poop in the yard.
- A bus on a day-long route across Germany had to pull over when the driver smelled smoke. The passengers quickly evacuated. Firefighters traced the problem to the luggage compartment under the bus: a stowaway had climbed in, and apparently got bored and lit a tobacco pipe.
Water Cooler Question
The restaurant Sobrino de Botín in Spain holds what world record? (First and oldest restaurant in the world. When it first opened in 1725 it was called Casa Botin. It’s still open today under the name Sobrino de Botín.)
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