Better Brand of Beer
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It is Thursday June 18th. Let’s start the podcast!
T HAPPENED TODAY
• 1873: Susan B. Anthony was fined $100 for attempting to vote in the 1872 presidential election.
• 1928: Aviator Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly in an aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean. She was a passenger; Wilmer Stutz was pilot and Lou Gordon was mechanic.
• 1948: Columbia Records publicly unveiled its new long-playing phonograph record in New York. It played at 33 and 1/3 revolutions per minute.
• 1983: Astronaut Sally Ride became the first American woman in space.
• 1992: Italian police arrested a man for stealing 17-thousand little bars of hotel soap.
• 2018: Donald Trump announced he would set up a sixth branch of the military: a “space force.”
SPECIAL EVENTS
• Autistic Pride Day
• Bartender Day
• Sushi Day
• Recess At Work Day
• Picnic Day
• Cheesemakers Day
NUMBER FOR THE DAY
215: Most pairs of underwear worn at the same time. The record was set by a then-10-year-old in Alabama.
NEWS ATTACK!
- According to a survey the most dreaded day for adults is the day we go to the dentist.
- Head injuries from riding motorized scooters are on the rise.
- A study says domesticated dogs developed the ability to make that sad-eye look as a way to evoke human sympathy. Their ancestors, wolves, don’t make that face at humans.
- Target is raising its minimum wage to $15 starting July 5. Walmart’s minimum wage is still $11. The United States’ minimum wage is just $7.25 an hour. I made $7.50 20 years ago as my starting pay at Lowe’s.
- Researchers are studying the lint in our belly buttons.
- The United Nations estimates that by 2050 the world will have almost 10 billion people.
- Researchers (North Carolina State University) dug into the microbial contents of 60 volunteers’ belly buttons. From 60 belly buttons, the team found 2,368 bacterial species, 1,458 of which may be new to science.
- It’s estimated that the average casual user (58 minutes per day on Facebook) who has been active on the site for 10 years has wasted upwards of 140 entire days of their life scrolling and liking and commenting on pictures and posts.
- If you skip your lunch break out of guilt, you are not alone — 82 percent of workers are also opting out of the downtime. A survey (Staffordshire University) reveals that people are choosing to complete their work over the time they give themselves for breaks.
- A South Carolina man said his wife’s urgent need for a bathroom break led to his winning big money from a scratch-off lottery ticket. The man and his wife made a stop at the Aynor Food Mart in Aynor, South Carolina, because she urgently needed to use the restroom. The man decided to fill up the gas tank while he was waiting, and he spotted another person at the pumps scratching off a lottery ticket. The man told his wife he was going inside to buy the same type ticket. She says she told him no at first, but her husband insisted and he won the ticket’s stop prize of $500,000.
- A man in the Ukraine told police he thinks his ex-girlfriend used a key he had given her to enter his apartment, steal his TV remote, and slash his clothes with a knife.
- In the UK a guy broke into an empty apartment. The owners were away for a few days. The guy stayed one night, replaced the beer he drank with a better brand of beer, and cleaned the place — even the rooms he never entered. Police have no leads and the apartment owners, while grateful for the cleaning, have changed their locks and installed security cameras.
Water Cooler Question
The longest one of these ever found was 19 feet, 2 inches. (Alligator)
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