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It is Wednesday June 24th. Let’s start the podcast!
IT HAPPENED TODAY
• 1497: The first recorded sighting of North America by a European took place when explorer John Cabot, on a voyage for England, spotted land, probably in present-day Canada. He claimed the piece of land for England, which is now Newfoundland.
• 1892: Robert Ford was gunned down in a Creede, Colorado, saloon. Ten years earlier, as a new recruit in the Jesse James gang, he had killed Jesse for a $10,000 reward.
• 1997: The Air Force released a report on the so-called “Roswell Incident,” suggesting the alien bodies witnesses reported seeing in 1947 were actually life-sized dummies.
• 2010: John Isner of the United States defeated Nicolas Mahut of France at Wimbledon, in the longest match in professional tennis history: 11 hours, 5 minutes.
• 2014: The original lyrics to Like a Rolling Stone, handwritten by Bob Dylan on hotel stationery, sold for $2 million at auction.
SPECIAL EVENTS
• Fairy Day
• World UFO Day
• Pralines Day
• Swim a Lap Day
NUMBER FOR THE DAY
15,600: Nursing homes in the United States.
NEWS ATTACK!
- Dr. Anthony Fauci warns that a coronavirus vaccine might take some time.
- A source says baseball finally has a plan to play.
- A survey finds that 30% of Americans have zero savings.
- JCPenney is closing more stores.
- The Segway self-balancing scooter will no longer be built. Since the original Segway’s debut 20 years ago, the market has become saturated with electric-powered two-wheelers of many varieties. Segway said the iconic and oft-ridiculed scooter only accounted for 1½ percent of the company’s revenue.
- State and county health directors are getting death threats for trying to keep their people safe from COVID-19. What do you mean by their people?
- According to a survey by the National Kidney Foundation, one in four Americans say they would consider donating a kidney to a stranger while still alive.
- Police in San Jose, California, are searching for a woman accused of deliberately coughing in a baby’s face after arguing with the 1-year-old’s mother about social distancing.
- In a normal year this coming weekend would give us the World’s Ugliest Dog Contest, part of the Sonoma-Marin Fair in Petaluma, California. Thanks to the coronavirus, this year’s WUG Contest has been canceled.
- If you’ve been able to work from home during the pandemic, here’s one bit of good news: you saved hundreds of dollars. Putting a price tag on it, Americans spend $2,600 each year — and 200 hours annually — getting to and from work.
- It’s expected that the world’s population will hit 8 billion by 2024. If there were just 100 people in the world, 61 would live in Asia, 14 in Africa, 11 in Europe, nine in Latin America, five in North America and less than one in Oceania (a geographic region that includes Australasia, Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia).
- In Denmark, a guy was rushed to the hospital after eating half a stick of dynamite. His drinking buddy gave him the “food” outside a bar and told him it was a new kind of candy bar.
- A tip for would-be thieves: If you’re going to a job interview, don’t swipe someone’s wallet and expect to be hired. Two job seekers learned that lesson the hard way after British police snagged them with a simple sting: getting the applicants’ would-be new boss to tell them, “You’re hired!” Excited, the two alleged thieves rushed back to the office where they found detectives and an unhappy employer waiting for them.
Water Cooler Question
Two million dads in the U.S. have this in common. (They’re single)
United States
