She Settled For Me
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It is Tuesday 23rd. Let’s start the podcast!
IT HAPPENED TODAY
• 1868: Christopher Latham Sholes received a patent for an invention he called the “Type-Writer”.
• 1888: Frederick Douglass becomes the first African-American nominated for US president.
• 1993: Lorena Bobbitt of Prince William County, Virginia, sexually mutilated her husband, John, after he allegedly raped her.
• 2005: In Suffolk, Virginia, three guys walked into a McDonald’s with the intention of robbing it. The place was rather busy so they ordered several burgers and enjoyed their meals while waiting for the crowd to thin out. They then robbed the place and made their getaway. Unfortunately, they left behind an important piece of evidence: their DNA on the leftover portions of the burgers.
• 2012: 76 monks were hospitalized in Thailand following an attack by a swarm of bees.
SPECIAL EVENTS
• Widows’ Day
• Let It Go Day
• Eat At A Food Truck Day
• Runner’s Selfie Day
• Pecan Sandy Day
NUMBER FOR THE DAY
5,800: Pounds of raisins eaten each week in the U.S.
NEWS ATTACK!
- A new study shows that prolonged sitting can lead to anxiety disorders.
A study finds that kids who lie well also have superior verbal memories.
- Obesity experts from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say children should get an hour of exercise every day.
- Coronavirus case trends are on the rise in half of the U.S.
- An update to the Apple Watch will remind you if you’ve not washed your hands for a full 20 seconds.
- The Hubble space telescope has spotted a galaxy about 50 million light-years from Earth.
- The 2021 Golden Globes will be delayed a couple of months due to COVID-19.
- A new survey finds the average person has six home repairs or updates on their to-do list — and to complete just the top three would require an average of $680 combined. Those with home improvement experience reveal the average repair has three things go wrong. More than six in ten homeowners turn to search engines, YouTube or helpful apps to get their repairs and updates done
- After weathering 20 years together, it is safe to assume you’d feel safe in a relationship with someone. However, one husband harshly learned that his wife might not have been as happy as he thought she had been after he overheard a conversation she was having with a friend. Now the husband and father of two adult children wants a divorce, but people are thinking he’s seriously taking it too far. The man shared on reddit: “I genuinely thought we were in love … until I overheard her on the phone recently remarking to a friend that she feels she settled for me and thinks about her ex every day. Her exact words: ‘I feel like I settled for him… I love him but he doesn’t excite me the way Tom did. Sometimes I wish Tom had been serious with me.’” The husband wrote on reddit: “Tom is her ex who she dated on and off before she met me. I always thought she was done with him because she told me that he ‘meant nothing to her’ because he refused to seriously commit but hearing this all these years later broke my heart.” In that moment, the husband knew in his heart that it was over. The man says, “I told her I overheard her and that it’s over. She broke down in hysterics saying it wasn’t what it looked like.” Reddit users were a little divided over how the husband should handle it.
- Two people caught joyriding through Italy in the buff were arrested by police. They say a woman was eating a slice of pizza while driving naked. Her passenger was also naked, holding a bottle of wine between his feet.
- In Germany, police are looking for a man who robbed a bank, then left his dufflebag full of money lying on the sidewalk just outside the bank’s doors. Witnesses say the man stopped after the robbery to tie his shoe then, forgetting about the bag, walked away.
Water Cooler Question
Thirteen percent of people who get this are men. (Botox)
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