Locked in the Bedroom
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It is Wednesday July 8th. Let’s start the podcast!
IT HAPPENED TODAY
• 1680: The first confirmed tornado in America killed one person in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
• 1776: The Declaration of Independence was read aloud in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
• 1831: John Stith Pemberton was born in Knoxville, Georgia. Pemberton was a pharmacist addicted to morphine after using it to treat a wound he received as a Confederate officer in the Civil War. His search for a cure for the addiction, which he never found, led him to create a beverage. His syrup debuted in Atlanta on May 8, 1886. Soon called Coca-Cola, it went on to make his partners and investors quite wealthy. But not Pemberton, as the inventor sold his interest in 1888.
• 1881: The first ice cream sundae was served for the first time by druggist Edward Berner of Two Rivers, Wisconsin.
• 1947: Reports were broadcast that a UFO had crash landed in Roswell, New Mexico.
• 2011: Space Shuttle Atlantis was launched in the final mission of the U.S. Space Shuttle program.
SPECIAL EVENTS
• Coca Cola Day
• Freezer Pop Day
• Video Game Day
• Chocolate with Almonds Day
• Body Painting Day
• Blueberry Day
NUMBER FOR THE DAY
2.8 million: Miles of paved roads (concrete or asphalt) in the U.S. Another 1.3 million miles are unpaved.
NEWS ATTACK!
-In recent weeks, the Senate Intelligence Committee included language in an authorization bill that if passed, would require US intelligence agencies and the Pentagon to put together a detailed unclassified analysis of all the data they have collected on “unidentified aerial phenomenon.” But Americans aren’t necessarily convinced the government will share any evidence of UFOs with the public. A poll of more than 8,000 US adults finds most (56%) Americans believe that if the government had evidence of UFOs, this information would be hidden from the public.
- A cyclist who left from Vancouver, British Columbia, biked across Canada and arrived in Halifax, Nova Scotia, 20 days later. Bianca Hayes said her 3,666-mile ride across Canada set a new record for female cyclists, although her 20-day ride fell short of her original goal of finishing in under 15 days to beat the male record. Hayes’ ride raised more than $22,000 for ovarian cancer research. She said the cause is personal to her, after her sister, Katrina, died after a battle with the disease in 2018.
- While calorie information is available for most of the food we eat, that data doesn’t really do the eater any good if you don’t know how many calories you should be consuming each day. Unfortunately, a survey shows that an overwhelming number of Americans are either mistaken or clueless when it comes to that information. According to the survey (funded by the International Food Information Council Foundation) 63 percent of those surveyed couldn’t accurately estimate the number of calories they should consume and 25 percent couldn’t even venture a guess, leaving a slim 12 percent who were properly informed.
WACKY-BUT-TRUE: CAR THIEF LOCKS HIMSELF INSIDE VEHICLE _ A car thief in China was found nearly dehydrated after he accidentally became trapped in the BMW he was trying to steal. The car’s owner alerted local police after he received a phone call from the thief pleading to get him out of the sweltering vehicle. The suspect was so weakened by the oven-like interior that police had to take him away in a wheelchair.
WACKY-BUT-TRUE: MAN BREAKS INTO RESTAURANT, DRINKS SAUCE _ A guy in Germany stole a bicycle, tossed it through a restaurant window, then went inside the restaurant and drank half a bottle of hot sauce. He told police he did it because he was thirsty.
WACKY-BUT-TRUE: BURGLAR GIVES POLICE THE FINGER _ In Spain a burglar was trying to steal carpentry equipment from an industrial complex when he accidentally severed a finger. Unable to stop the bleeding, he went to the city’s hospital. The officials notified police who went to the site and found the man’s finger, which they used as evidence to arrest him.
WACKY-BUT-TRUE: HUSBAND TRIES TO SWING FROM TREE TO GO DRINKING _ In Romania, a guy ended up in the hospital after he tried to swing from tree to tree to escape his wife and go out drinking. The wife had locked her 66-year-old husband in the bedroom. The husband broke an arm, an ankle and a leg when he slipped from a vine outside the window.
WACKY-BUT-TRUE: POLICE WARN OF ALLIGATOR ON THE LOOSE IN MICHIGAN _ Police are warning residents of a Michigan area to be on the lookout for an unusual escapee: an alligator. A one-foot alligator. Police say the small alligator escaped from a home (near Lucerne/Lantz). Police said the alligator was a pet being kept at the home.
Water Cooler Question
A survey found that this is the most popular salad dressing by a two-to-one margin in America. (Ranch)
United States
