Exploding Whale
Description
It is Tuesday June 16th, Let’s start the podcast!
IT HAPPENED TODAY
• 1891: The George A. Hormel & Company was founded in Austin, Minnesota. In 1937 it introduced Spam, now the world’s biggest selling canned meat product.
• 1903: A U.S. patent was issued for a soft drink formula called Pepsi-Cola. On the same day a U.S. patent was issued for Chicken Goggles, designed to protect chickens from being pecked in the eyes.
• 1967: The three-day Monterey International Pop Music Festival — which catapulted Jimi Hendrix, the Who and Janis Joplin to stardom — opened in northern California.
• 1987: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar signed a two-year contract with the Los Angeles Lakers for $5 million, making him the highest paid player in any sport.
• 1998: A 40-year-old Florida woman gave birth to a son in the first-ever live birth on the Internet before an audience estimated by a cable health network at two million people.
• 2013: Pope Francis blessed thousands of Harley-Davidsons and their riders in Vatican Square; the riders were celebrating the company’s 110th anniversary with a parade.
SPECIAL EVENTS
• Fudge Day
• Fresh Veggies Day
• World Sea Turtle Day
NUMBER FOR THE DAY
6 billion: Number of ATM transactions each year in the U.S.
NEWS ATTACK!
- If you have laryngitis, whispering doesn’t help. A study revealed that whispering strains your vocal cords as much as yelling.
- According to a study, a dog knows if someone is mistreating his owner, and will react by refusing food offered by that person.
- Airlines will soon make passengers wears masks during flight.
- The FDA has revoked its emergency use authorization for hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19, the drug the president likes and even took himself.
- The coast of Oregon has a new park: Exploding Whale Memorial Park. The new park is named after the state’s decision to blow up a 45-foot, 8-ton whale that washed ashore near Florence, Oregon, in November of 1970.
- A group of scientists at the University of Nottingham think they’ve come up with a new calculation that says that there are likely to be at least 36 ongoing intelligent civilizations in our Milky Way galaxy.
- As the world begins to open, more people are getting on planes. The TSA would like to remind you that you can’t bring these on a plane in your carry-on: Axes and hatchets; bowling pins; canoe/kayak paddles; fireworks; gasoline; liquid bleach; rocket launcher; slingshot; strike-anywhere matches; throwing stars; walking stick.
- A man arrested on suspicion of burglary took two items from a Nebraska home. Police said the man was found passed out on the front lawn of the home with a package of bacon in his pocket.
- At a hair salon in the United Arab Emirates, a woman was attacked by a python while she was getting her hair done. She was rescued by another woman who unwrapped the snake from around her leg.
Water Cooler Question
This animal kills about 88 people each year. (Horses. Most are deaths from being thrown.)
United States
