A Million Dollars
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It is Friday June 19th. Let’s start the podcast!
IT HAPPENED TODAY
• 1846: The first baseball game under recognizable modern rules was played in Hoboken, New Jersey.
• 1910: The first Father’s Day was celebrated in Spokane, Washington.
• 1941: General Mills in Minneapolis created a new dry breakfast cereal called Cheerie Oats. The name was later shortened to Cheerios.
• 1978: The Garfield comic strip debuted.
• 1993: Toronto police reported that a business burglar had left a thumb print in the owner’s Silly Putty.
• 2015: Hawaii raised the legal smoking age from 18 to 21, the highest smoking age among all the states.
• 2016: Actor Anton Yelchin was killed when he was pinned by his Jeep Grand Cherokee against an entrance post at his home.
SPECIAL EVENTS
• Juneteenth
• Flip Flop Day
• Ugliest Dog Day
• Martini Day
DATEBOOK WEEKEND
NUMBER FOR THE DAY
35 million: Americans who have never left the state where they were born.
NEWS ATTACK!
- After being locked down, consumers are doing some “revenge shopping” — buying things they felt they were denied over 2½ months.
- One in three British men say they wear their underwear more than one day in a row. One in 100 say they wear their underwear up to a full week.
- According to a poll, more than two-thirds of Americans are concerned about the threat of hackers.
- According to a survey, bad breath apparently is the most embarrassing thing that can happen on a first-date.
- White House adviser Kellyanne Conway apparently had some work done on her face.
- The reason we had a flour shortage during the pandemic is because there aren’t enough manufacturing plants set up to bag flour for grocery stores.
- Here’s a new crisis the coronavirus pandemic is responsible for: a nationwide shortage of quarters, dimes, nickels and pennies.
- An Alaska father and son fishing on a river found a message in a bottle that apparently traveled about 50 miles in 13 years. he message inside was written by two young girls named Amy and Angela. The note detailed the girls’ current crushes and celebrated their friendship.
- A study of smells shows that the scent of grapefruit on women make them seem about six years younger to men. However, grapefruit fragrance on men does nothing for them.
- A game warden saw a strange sight walking down a Vermont road. The Tegu “Red Dragon” had apparently wandered off its owner’s property but is now safe. They were able to reunite the lizard with its owner.
- After a couple of black bear spottings in Winslow Township, New Jersey, the police posted a warning on Facebook: “Please do not, I repeat, DO NOT attempt to take selfies with the bear.”
Water Cooler Question
58% of women say they’d do this for a million dollars. (Sleep with a total stranger)
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