Bullet in the Brain
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It is Monday July 6th. Let’s start the podcast!
IT HAPPENED TODAY
• 1785: The dollar was unanimously chosen as the monetary unit for the United States.
• 1933: Baseball’s first All-Star game was held at Chicago’s Comiskey Park. The American League beat the National League 4-2.
• 1955: America’s first seat belt law was signed, in Illinois.
• 1957: Teenagers John Lennon and Paul McCartney met for the first time at a church in Liverpool, England, following a performance by Lennon’s band, the Quarrymen.
• 2010: Lindsay Lohan was sentenced to 90 days in jail and 90 days in a residential substance-abuse program for violating her probation stemming from two separate 2007 cases of driving under the influence of cocaine and alcohol. (She served 14 days behind bars.)
• 2014: The state of Washington legalized recreational marijuana, becoming the second U.S. state to do so after Colorado.
SPECIAL EVENTS
• International Kissing Day
• Fried Chicken Day
NUMBER FOR THE DAY
44: Percentage of drivers who’ve forgotten where they parked.
NEWS ATTACK!
- Falling from 14,000 feet up is hair-raising enough, but doing it at 103? Al Blaschke made a Guinness World Records-breaking leap with two grandsons Thursday in the skies over Texas. Blaschke, who tied the record back in 2017 at age 100, took the leap again to celebrate his 22-year-old twin grandsons’ graduations.
- A California special education teacher was fired from her school district after a video went viral of her allegedly intentionally coughing on a 1-year-old at a yogurt shop. School officials in San Jose said they would not tolerate conduct from any employee that may compromise the safety of a child. The suspect was standing in line at Yogurtland in front of a mother and her child, who was in a stroller. Police say the woman was upset that the mother was not maintaining proper social distancing, so she removed her face mask, got close to the baby’s face, and coughed 2 to 3 times.
- On June 27 Tracie Stanley-Wills and her partner Craig were meant to getting married with a ceremony in front of 50 friends and family. Sadly, when coronavirus struck back in March, they decided to postpone until next year. But Tracie still wore a wedding dress last Saturday on the day that she’d planned to get married, instead running a 5K to raise money for two charities close to her heart. Having not been much of a runner before as she lives with fibromyalgia, osteoporosis and a false hip, she chose to complete the couch to 5K program.
- A former Russian policeman has been living a normal life with a bullet lodged in his brain for past ten years. The policeman, 36-year-old Vladimir Krutov, got the bullet in his head during an encounter with gang ten years ago. At the time, surgeons refused to remove the bullet saying the procedure would almost certainly cause death. The bullet had entered the base of the skull and passed through his entire brain. At the time, doctors gave Krutov a one in a million chance of survival. A year-and-a-half ago he married and is now the proud father of a five-month-old daughter.
- A Tennessee (Franklin) dog played a role in alerting her owner Saturday night to the neighbor’s house being on fire — a blaze started by fireworks. Roux, a three-year-old Belgian Malinois, was barking frantically at Jeff LeCates’ front door just before 10:45 PM Saturday. When LeCates opened the door to investigate, Roux burst out. LeCates then saw that his neighbor’s house was on fire, prompting him to pound on their door and wake the family of three and their pets. All escaped without injuries.
WACKY-BUT-TRUE: DEER ENTERS STORE, GETS FED COOKIES, RETURNS WITH FAMILY _ A deer entered a Colorado store. The store owner gave him some chocolate chip cookies. The deer left the store and returned after half an hour with all his family members. • IMAGES
WACKY-BUT-TRUE: BRITISH WOMAN SLEEPWALKS INTO THE SEA _ A British woman sleepwalked straight into the sea — and only woke up when she swallowed a mouthful of seawater. Before sleepwalking in the sea she first sleepwalked more than half a mile to the beach.
Water Cooler Question
Around 90% of the pumpkins grown have this in common. (They’re not eaten)
United States
