Bitten in the Face
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It is Wednesday June 17th. Let’s start the podcast!
IT HAPPENED TODAY
• 1870: George Cormack was born in Scotland. In 1924, working in the U.S., he invented Wheaties.
• 1885: The Statue of Liberty arrived in New York Harbor.
• 1976: What remained of the American Basketball Association, the Nets, Pacers, Nuggets, and Spurs, merged into the NBA.
• 1994: Following a televised low-speed highway chase and a failed attempt at suicide, O.J. Simpson was arrested for the murders of his wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman.
• 2004: An Alabama hen named Matilda was certified by Guinness World Records as the world’s oldest living chicken. She was 14 at the time, almost double the normal lifespan of a chicken. Matilda worked in a magic act. She died February 11, 2006.
• 2008: An Orlando, Florida, man was taken into custody after the pickup he was driving was found to have a hidden 800-gallon tank custom-welded into the back to steal fuel. Investigators said a gas station attendant called police and said the driver of a white Ford pickup looked suspicious and lingered too long at the pump. When officers checked the man’s vehicle, they found a fuel tank professionally welded and hidden inside. The man also had a key that disabled pump meters.
SPECIAL EVENTS
• Garbage Man Day
• Apple Strudel Day
• Cherry Tart Day
NUMBER FOR THE DAY
110: Most bridesmaids at a wedding. The record was set in 2015 by a bride from Ohio.
NEWS ATTACK!
- Another study has concluded that chocolate is good for the heart.
- Airlines are planning to restrict alcohol sales during flights.
- Summer begins Saturday.
- An investigation by USA Today found Americans were never at risk of a severe meat shortage.
- A super-wealthy family in China was kidnapped in their home, but the kidnappers were arrested after a member of the family escaped, ran away, and swam across a river to get help.
- A new study finds the discounting of cigarettes by the tobacco industry is linked to higher cigarette consumption.
- A New Zealand (Auckland) couple are happy to be reunited with their pet six months after she was stolen. On social media, police said officers found the dog when they arrested a man for dishonesty offenses and breaching his release conditions.
- A study that says flushing a toilet can generate a cloud of aerosol droplets that rises nearly three feet. Those droplets may linger in the air long enough to be inhaled by a shared toilet’s next user, or land on surfaces in the bathroom.
- Swiss police are looking for a forgetful individual who left something rather important on a train — a package full of gold bars, worth more than $190,000. The parcel containing the gold bars was found in October last year.
- A man was attacked by an alligator early Monday morning in Largo, Florida. Police said the man was waist-deep in water at a disc golf course when he was bitten in the face. The 40-year-old man used his left hand to pry the gator off, but he received severe lacerations to his hand and face. He is expected to survive the bite.
- A Brazilian bank was ordered to pay a former secretary $9,000 after her boss told her to keep a plastic turtle on her desk. The manager told his secretary to keep the toy turtle on her desk to remind her of how slow she worked.
- In Germany, a sleepwalking man climbed out of a first-floor window, shimmied up a drainpipe and walked across the roof before falling 20 feet to the ground. The man suffered only a few bruises from the fall and says he lost his balance when he woke up.
Water Cooler Question
The average man will wait 12 months before replacing one of these. (A dead pet. Women don’t wait quite as long.)
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