Aggressive Kissing Style
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It is Thursday June 25th. Let’s start the podcast!
IT HAPPENED TODAY
• 1947: The Diary of Anne Frank was published.
• 1951: The first commercial color telecast took place as CBS transmitted a one-hour special from New York to four other cities.
• 1991: Francis Johnson’s world record 8.7-ton ball of twine, which he had been building since 1950, was moved to a prominent place in downtown Darwin, Minnesota, where more people could see it.
• 2002: A five-year-old Sicilian boy tore up $1,525 in cash, his father’s monthly salary, the day after his grandfather told him money was trash and couldn’t buy happiness.
• 2009: Michael Jackson died at age 50 from an overdose of the powerful anesthetic propofol. The singer’s doctor, Conrad Murray, was convicted of involuntary manslaughter.
SPECIAL EVENTS
• It’s six months till Christmas!
• Color TV Day
• Global Beatles Day
• Global Smurfs Day
• Bomb Pop Day
• Catfish Day
• Hand Shake Day
• Strawberry Parfait Day
• Goat Cheese Day
NUMBER FOR THE DAY
66: Players who suited up for just one NBA game.
NEWS ATTACK!
- A study finds that if processed foods are labeled as healthy, people tend to overindulge in them.
- Masks are big sellers on Etsy and the website sold around 12 million in April alone.
- Users of Windows 10 will soon see a better Start menu. [You’ll see a list of your apps, a ‘sleep’ switch, and a link for ordering a Macbook.]
- The latest poll shows if the election were held today, Joe Biden would win. [And then take a nap.]
- The latest poll shows if the election were held today, Donald Trump would lose. [But not on Twitter.]
- Baseball fans are happy there will be 60 games and not a canceled season.
- Thanks to COVID-19 and drive-in theaters, Jurassic Park is No. 1 at the box office again.
- The 2021 summer vacation planning period began earlier than ever, with many people who had planned bigger trips for summer 2020 simply pushing back those reservations to 2021. One travel company says 89 percent of clients with trips cancelled by pandemic shut-downs rebooked the very same itinerary for 2021.
- A dog in Tennessee has become the oldest known living golden retriever in history after celebrating her 20th birthday in April. Most golden retrievers live between 10 and 12 years.
- Google announced Wednesday it will start to automatically delete users’ location history and web activity after 18 months. Previously, users had to turn this setting on if they didn’t want Google to store their data for an indefinite amount of time.
- Men are almost twice as likely to speed on the road as women, according to analysis of more than five billion miles of driving data. On average, men speed 94 per cent more than women, but women in their forties are found to speed 2 percent more than their male counterparts.
- A study says delivering bad news is easier — and the information gets delivered more accurately — when done by email rather than face-to-face or by phone. A co-author of the study thinks its because “People don’t sugarcoat” the news — “they just tell it like it is” through email.
- Could our favorite morning drink also help fight one of its biggest health issues, obesity? That’s the suggestion from a British study (University of Nottingham) that finds coffee stimulates the human body’s “brown fat,” a heat-generating form of fat that literally burns calories in a process called thermogenesis.
- In wacky news - A first date went from locking lips to angry words for a couple in China over a dispute involving dentures damaged during a passionate kiss. Police were called after a 30-year-old man got upset with his significant over the dental disaster. He told officers he had lost four false teeth while making out with his date, which he blamed on her “aggressive kissing style.” After two hours of police mediation, the man was compensated $483.
Water Cooler Question
You might think this is acceptable to do at work, but 84% of your co-workers don’t like it. (Trimming your nails)
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