It is Tuesday MAY 19th, Let’s start the podcast!
IT HAPPENED TODAY
• 1310: Shoes were designed specifically for the right and left foot for the first time since the fall of the Roman Empire.
• 1962: A birthday salute to U.S. President John F. Kennedy took place at Madison Square Garden, New York. The highlight was Marilyn Monroe’s infamous rendition of Happy Birthday.
• 1972: Dan Gorske’s Big Mac odyssey began. The Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, man consumed eight Big Macs to begin his streak of eating the McDonald’s hamburger sandwich every day.He eats two a day.
• 1991: A 31-year-old Cleveland skydiver survived a two-mile fall after her parachute failed to open. Jill Shields suffered spine and pelvic injuries when she landed in a swamp.
• 1999: Beckley, West Virginia, police arrested a 32-year-old man for stealing the same tools he had been convicted of stealing two years before. The tools had not been claimed, so the police planted them in a vehicle stake-out, and the suspect stole them again.
• 2007: Donald Trump, whose low-rated reality show The Apprentice was left off the new prime-time schedule unveiled by NBC, said the network couldn’t fire him because he was quitting.
• 2011: Katie Couric, the first regular solo anchorwoman of a network evening newscast, signed off the CBS Evening News for the last time after five years.
SPECIAL EVENTS
• Scooter Day
• Devil’s Food Cake Day
NUMBER FOR THE DAY
820,000: Golf balls sold worldwide every day.
NEWS ATTACK!
To make up for lost sales car manufacturers are offering some of the best deals in years. [A friend bought a new car last week and loaded it up: sunroof, driver assist, windows that automatically tint when you put your finger in your nose…]
J.C. Penney plans to close more than a quarter of its stores. [See, I keep telling everyone the penny isn’t popular.]
The newest reason to hate 2020: A deadly virus is threatening to wipe out entire populations of North American rabbits. [Great, Easter 2021 is already ruined.]
Donald Trump says he is taking a drug that science says is not effective against coronavirus and may be harmful. [We’ll never know its effect since the first sign of trouble is orange skin.]
A study shows that rats will make personal sacrifices to rescue a fellow rat, even giving up the opportunity to eat chocolate. [Give up chocolate? I’d really have to know that guy pretty well.]
Engineers are redesigning door handles so we don’t have to touch them. [This is why wear shirts with mittens buttoned to the sleeves.]
A study reveals that happiness comes with age. [I’d have to agree with that — I’m getting older and have happiness growths all over my body.]
A South African woman won damages of $13,000 after a toilet collapsed beneath her at a hospital. The woman was visiting her husband in the hospital when she needed to use the toilet. She told the court she still suffered pain as the result of injuries sustained in the incident. In her testimony, the woman said that seconds after she sat down, the toilet bowl shattered beneath her. She landed on broken pieces of the toilet bowl, and her right knee was twisted and trapped under rubble.
Water Cooler Question
Early in its existence FedEx was able to stay afloat because its founder raised $27,000 how?
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