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TOTALLY TRIVIAL • About 25% of the world’s supply of hazel nuts is used by the Nutella company. Each jar of Nutella contains about 50 hazel nuts.

• In the 1700s, pineapples were so rare and precious in England that they cost the equivalent of $8,000 in today’s money. They could be rented for an evening, put on display as the centerpiece. They were not actually eaten until they started to go soft.

• Yoda from Star Wars and Miss Piggy from Sesame Street were both voiced by the same person: Frank Oz, whose real name is Frank Oznowicz. Oz has voiced many Sesame Street characters, including Fozzie Bear, Animal, Grover, Cookie Monster, and Bert.

• Fanta is a soft drink that was invented in Germany in 1940 when World War II interrupted supply chains. The owner of a soft drink bottling plant invented the new flavor, originally made from apple peelings secured from a local cider mill, because he could no longer receive Coca Cola syrup from the U.S. and needed to keep the factory running.

• An acre of hemp will yield the same amount of paper as three acres of trees.

•Researchers at Georgia Tech studied the urination habits of animals at the local zoo, as well as a variety of domestic animals, including dogs, goats, cows, gorillas, and elephants. turn the page for more!

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How Medicare Covers Ambulance Services Dear Savvy Senior, How does Medicare cover ambulance services?

About three months ago, I took an ambulance to the hospital emergency room because I rarely drive anymore, and I just received a $1,100 bill from the ambulance company.

Surprised Senior Dear Surprised, This is a Medicare issue that confuses many seniors. Yes, Medicare does covers emergency ambulance services and, in limited cases, nonemergency ambulance services too, but only when they’re deemed medically necessary and reasonable. So, what does that means? First, it means that your medical condition must be serious enough that you need an ambulance to transport you safely to a hospital or other facility where you receive care that Medicare covers. If a car or taxi could transport you without endangering your health, Medicare won’t pay. For example, Medicare probably won’t pay for an ambulance to take someone with a simple arm fracture to a hospital. But if he or she goes into shock, or is prone to internal bleeding, ambulance transport may be medically necessary to ensure the patient’s safety on the way. The details make a difference.

Second, the ambulance must take you to the nearest appropriate facility, meaning the closest hospital, critical access hospital, skilled nursing facility or dialysis facility generally equipped to provide the services your illness or injury requires. It also means that the facility must have a physician or physician specialist available to treat your condition. Thus, Medicare may pay for an ambulance to take you to a more distant hospital if, for example, you are seriously burned, and the nearest hospital doesn’t have burn unit. Similarly, if you live in a rural area where the nearest hospital equipped to treat you is a two-hour drive away, Medicare will pay. But if you want an ambulance to take you to a more distant hospital because the doctor you prefer has staff privileges there, expect to pay a greater share of the bill. Medicare will cover the cost of ambulance transport to the nearest appropriate facility and no more.

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after Medicare denies payment, but you think TOTALLY TRIVIAL CONTINUED the ride was medically necessary, you can appeal (see Medicare.gov/claims-appeals). Often, a lack What they discovered is that most of information about a person’s condition or need mammals weighing over 6.6 lbs (3 kg) take about 21 seconds to urinate from for services leads to denials.

If you need some help contact your State Health Insurance Assistance Program (SHIP), which has counselors that can help you file an appeal for free. To locate your local SHIP, visit ShiptaCenter.org or call 877-839-2675.

Send your senior questions to: Savvy Senior, P.O. Box 5443, Norman, OK 73070, or visit SavvySenior.org. Jim Miller is a contributor to the NBC Today show and author of “The Savvy Senior” book.

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* On Aug. 8, 1863, after his defeat at Gettysburg, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee sends a letter of resignation to Confederate President Jefferson Davis. Davis refused the request. * On Aug. 9, 1974, Richard Nixon officially resigns as president of the United States, departing in a helicopter from the White House lawn. Minutes later, Vice President Gerald Ford was sworn in. Ford spoke in a television address, declaring, “My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over.” * On Aug. 10, 1937, the electric guitar is recognized by the United States Patent Office with the award of Patent No. 2,089.171 for the Rickenbacker Frying Pan. The guitar used a heavy electromagnet that surrounded the base of the steel strings like a bracelet. (c) 2019 Hearst Communications, Inc.

Non-Emergency Situations In limited cases, Medicare will also cover non-emergency ambulance services if such transportation is needed to treat or diagnose your health condition and the use of any other transportation method could endanger your health. Not having another means of transportation is not sufficient for Medicare to pay for services. Some examples here are if you need transportation to get dialysis or if you are staying in a skilled nursing facility and require medical care. In these cases, a doctor’s order may be required to prove that use of an ambulance is medically necessary.

Ambulance Costs The cost for ambulance services can vary from several hundred to several thousand dollars depending on where you live and how far you’re transported. Under original Medicare, Part B pays 80 percent of the Medicare-approved amounts for ambulance rides. You, or your Medicare supplemental policy (if you have one), will need to pay the remaining 20 percent. If you have a Medicare Advantage Plan, it must cover the same services as original Medicare, and may offer some additional transportation services.

You’ll need to check with your plan for details.

How to Appeal If an ambulance company bills you for services

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start to finish, whether it’s an elephant emptying its 5-gallon (19 L.) bladder or a cat relieving its teaspoon-size bladder. They called this “the universal law of urination” and the research won them an Ig Nobel award in 2015.

• Most trees have leaves that can photosynthesize using just one side of the leaf, but the quaking aspen can photosynthesize from both sides of the leaf. This means it can grow more quickly than other species.

• The diameter of our Milky Way Galaxy is approximately 100,000 light years from side to side. If the Milky Way was reduced to the size of the continental U.S., our solar system would be about the size of a quarter, and Earth would be the size of a grain of sand in the middle of the quarter.

• The Voyager space probe was launched in 1977 and is traveling at about 38,000 mph (61,000 km/h).

It reached the edge of our solar system 35 years after being launched.

Information sent from the probe, traveling at the speed of light, takes over 16 hours to reach Earth.

• Under their stripes, zebras have black skin. Polar bears also have black skin, and their fur is not white, but is actually colorless, but it reflects white light. Big cats such as leopards and cheetahs have skin colors that match their stripes and spots.

• The AR in “AR-15” rifle does not stand for “assault rifle” or “automatic rifle” but stands for ArmaLite rifle, after the company that developed it in the 1950s.

• Babies that are exposed to sign language will often “babble” with their hands the same way babies that are exposed to speech will babble.

• Most of the bananas for sale in grocery stores these days are a variety called Cavendish. However, the most popular banana used to be the type that was called Gros Michel, meaning “Big Mike.” The Big Mike fell victim to the banana plague in the 1950s, leading to the Cavendish taking its place. The interesting thing is that the Big Mike variety had a banana peel that was far more slippery than the Cavendish, leading to the old-time joke of slipping on a banana peel.

• The boarding house where John Wilkes Booth and his accomplices plotted the assassination of Abe Lincoln is now a Chinese restaurant called the Wok N Roll.

• Queen Elizabeth II was born on April 21, 1921, just 39 days before Marilyn Monroe was born. At the age of 93, Queen Elizabeth is the longestreigning British monarch, and the longest-serving current head of state.

She became queen in 1952. Marilyn Monroe died in 1962 at the age of 36.

• Australia has so many beaches that if you were to visit one every day it would take almost 30 years to visit all of them. About 80% of the animal species that live in Australia are unique to Australia. There are over 60 species of kangaroo. Australia is the only continent without an active volcano.

• The venom of a male platypus is strong enough to kill a small dog.

Only the males have venom. The female platypus sweats milk, as it lacks nipples. The milk collects in an abdominal pouch where the young can lap it up. turn the page for more!

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It’s a great way to keep your daily walkers up off the floor! * “Plastic containers with a serving spout can be used for more than fruit juice and sweet tea! Mine fit a full bag of flour or sugar, and if I open a hole in the bag right where the spout is, I can pour what I need out without even removing the top.

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TOTALLY TRIVIAL CONTINUED • Jacksonville, Florida, is located on the Atlantic shore in northern Florida near the Georgia border. It is farther west than the entire continent of South America.

• McDonald’s is the largest toy distributor in the world. Lego is the world’s largest producer of tires.

IKEA’s catalog is the world’s most widely distributed book.

• You’ve no doubt heard that a flock of crows is called a murder, just as a flock of geese is called a gaggle. Many of these collective names were invented in the year 1486 with the publication of a book called “The Book of St. Albans.”

This book was a treatise about hunting, written by a nun named Juliana Barnes who lived in a nunnery near the town of St. Albans, England. The book contained such suggested names as a leap of leopards, a yoke of oxen, a burden of mules, a kindle of kittens, a rout of wolves, and even a blast of hunters and a melody of harpers. Of the 162 group names listed in the book, many of them stuck.

• Dogs will eat up to 86% more food if they are in a setting where they can see other dogs eating, as opposed to eating alone.

• Hardwood is not necessarily harder or denser than softwood. Softwood and hardwood are distinguished botanically in terms of their method of reproduction. Most hardwoods come from deciduous trees, which lose their leaves in the winter, while softwoods come from coniferous trees, which remain green year-round. Softwoods reproduce through pollination that causes cones to form. Hardwoods reproduce with pollination through flowers, which results in fruits, nuts, and seeds.

• 70% of dog bites happen to a child under the age of ten. 60% of those children are boys. Most of the bites happen when the child comes into contact with the dog’s food or possessions. Male dogs are more likely to bite than female dogs. Only 1 out of every 3.9 million dogs ever kills a human.

REMARKABLE PEOPLE GEOFFREY PYKE • Geoffrey Pyke was born in England in 1893. When World War II began, he worked in various capacities for the war effort. One problem was that German U-boats were wreaking havoc on British ships, but the action was taking place so far out to sea that it was out of the range of British planes. Metals such as aluminum and steel were in short supply, and there were not nearly enough air craft carriers available.

Islands where airplanes could land to refuel were few and far between.

• This led Geoffrey Pyke to wonder if you couldn’t make an air craft carrier out of ice. Couldn’t you level off an iceberg, attach a motor to it, and use it as a floating landing field?

• Experiments studying the structural integrity of ice were begun. Icebergs proved to be too unstable. Pure ice was brittle and fractured easily. Then scientists experimented with mixtures of ice and wood pulp. Their tests were very promising: ice made with as little as 4% wood pulp was as strong as concrete. The composition was named pykrete.

• Pyke delivered a slab of pykrete to Allied Commander Lord Mountbatten, who took it to Winston Churchill. According to the story, Mountbatten arrived as Churchill was soaking in a hot bath. turn the page for more!

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GEOFFREY PYKE CONTINUED He plopped the chunk of ice into the hot water, and they were both astonished to see that the exterior layer of ice melted away, leaving a layer of wood shavings as insulation which protected the rest of the ice and prevented it from melting.

• Next, Mountbatten took a block of pykrete to a demonstration, placing one block of regular ice next to it, and then shooting both blocks with his service pistol. The pure ice shattered, but the bullet ricocheted off the block of pykrete.

• Further experiments with pykrete were performed in London in an underground meat storage locker. Research showed that Canadian spruce was superior to Scotch pine and that a ratio of 14% wood pulp to 86% ice was best. Pykrete could be machined like wood and cast into shapes like metal.

• Geoffrey Pyke was given all the funding he needed to build an experimental aircraft carrier out of pykrete. The endeavor was dubbed Project Habakkuk, after a prophet in the Bible who has a book in the Old Testament named after him. One verse reads: “Behold ye among the heathen, and regard, and wonder marvelously: for I will work a work in your days, which ye will not believe, though it be told you.” (Habakkuk 1:5).

• Canada was chosen for the work due to its cold climate. A scale model was built in Lake Patricia in Alberta, with conscientious objectors providing the labor. It measured 60 by 30 feet (18 m by 9 m), weighed 1,000 tons and was kept frozen by a one-horsepower motor. It took a month to construct.

• The requirements for the full-size vessel were stringent: it had to have a range of 7,000 miles (11,000 km), withstand the largest waves, and be torpedo-proof, which meant that the hull had to be at least 40 ft (12 m) thick. The deck had to be 2,000 ft (610 m) long.

• When the time came to build a full-scale ship in 1943, a couple of issues got in the way. First was the difficulty in steering the ship, as the 40-foot thick ice prevented the installation of a working rudder.

Furthermore, by this time better aircraft had been constructed that had a much longer range and therefore fewer air craft carriers were needed. In addition, by then the war was beginning to turn in favor of the Allies. Eventually, the idea was scrapped.

• Still, it took three successive hot summers for the pykrete ship to completely melt in Alberta.

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1. In 2019, Pittsburgh’s Josh Bell became the third player in National League history to have at least 12 doubles and 12 home runs in the same month. Name either of the other two to do it.

2. When was the last time before 2018 (Cincinnati’s Bryan Price) that a majorleague manager was fired in the month of April?

3. How many years went by before the Buffalo Bills returned to the NFL playoffs in the 2017 season?

4. When was the last time before the 2018-19 season that the Tennessee men’s basketball team won at least 15 games in a row?

5. How many times have the Florida Panthers made the NHL playoffs during their first 25 seasons (through 2018-19)?

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A Day Like Any Other Josh Vermillion

The day starts like any other day. My alarm wakes me up at 6:00 a.m. After some light stretching to warm myself up, I go into the bathroom and start my morning routine. I try to be as efficient as I can so that I don’t waste my day. First, I brush my teeth while I use the bathroom. Next comes my face. I splash some water on my face to make sure I’m fully awake, and then I use face wash. Got to keep my skin clear. I haven’t had a single breakout since I was a teenager, and I intend to keep it that way.

I pull my hair back into a ponytail. Simple, yet elegant. Finally, it’s time to start my day. Well, really start my day that is. I’m the only one awake in the house, so I move as silently as possible over the carpeted floor of the hallway and into the kitchen. The house is mostly clean from the night before, but Ben and Ken get a little rowdy in the night, so sometimes their hair is everywhere. I sweep up a small pile of hair and make sure there isn’t a speck of dust on the ground. I wouldn’t want Lisa and Tom to get their feet dirty first thing in the morning. After that, I take the dishes out of the washer set the table. Once everything is in place the way it should be, it’s time to start making breakfast.

At 7:15, I hear Tom’s alarm go off upstairs. A few minutes later, the shower comes on. That means I have about twenty-five minutes to finish breakfast. It’s Wednesday, bacon-and-eggs day, which means I have a few minutes to kill before I have to start cooking. I wouldn’t want their breakfast to be cold and hard by the time they get down here. Within the next fifteen minutes, three more alarms go off upstairs. First, Lisa gets up and starts getting ready for work. Then it’s Adam, who has to make sure he’s ready for school. For Adam, that means he just has to throw on some shorts and an old t-shirt and he’ll be good to go. Alice is the last to rise. She

doesn’t have class at the local university until 10:25 today, but she wants to look her best for that cute boy that sits two rows in front of her.

After exactly seven minutes of rest, it’s time for me to start cooking. Tom and Adam will be downstairs first. They’re easy. They like their eggs scrambled and their bacon burnt black. I put their bacon to the side to let it cook and start working on Lisa’s breakfast. She’ll be down shortly after Tom, and she likes an egg on an English muffin. I start frying her egg and toasting a muffin. I time it perfectly, so the toaster will pop as she walks into the room. Alice is a little bit pickier. She likes her bacon soft, but not flimsy. Her eggs need to be done over-medium, a little bit burnt around the edges but not so much that it tastes like dirt. I save hers for last because I know that she will be upstairs getting ready for a while. Plus, I get nervous making her food and I don’t want to mess it up.

Tom, Adam, and Lisa all come down as expected and sit down for their breakfasts. Tom’s coffee is hot and waiting for him (two sugars and one cream), Adam’s daily energy drink is poured into a glass, and Lisa’s room temperature water hits the table at the same moment her bottom hits her chair.

Breakfast goes very well. I receive compliments from everyone. That even includes Tom, who is usually very tired in the morning and doesn’t speak to anyone until he’s had at least three cups of coffee. As they enjoy their breakfast, I take Ben and Ken out for their morning run around the yard. I still have some time before I need to prepare Alice’s meal, so I let the dogs have one extra lap before I usher them inside. They run over to eat their food and I head back to the stove. “Regina! Look out for the—” Adam yells.

But it’s too late. Apparently, he felt the need for a second energy drink this morning and, seeing how I was occupied with the dogs, had gotten up to get it for himself. In the process, he knocked over the dish soap, which had spilled all over the floor. I did not see the soap as I turned the corner

and my feet slipped very quickly. I fall towards the corner of the counter. My arm hits it and slides down. I expect it to hurt, but I surprisingly only feel a slight bump as it happens. I stand up, brushing it off. “Oops! I’m sorry, I will get a towel and clean this up right away,” I say, not wanting it to seem like a big deal. “Now Regina, I don’t want to alarm you,” Lisa says softly. “But your arm is bleeding.” I look down, expecting a couple drops of blood to be rolling down my arm. What I see totally blows me away. I stumble backwards, catching myself on the counter that had caused this damage. Instead of blood, I see a line of brown liquid pouring out of my arm.

It almost looks like... oil. Not only that, but the skin is pulled back quite a bit and I can see inside of my arm. Where there should be muscles and bones, I see only metal. Gears and wires and a steel frame make up the entirety of my arm.

“Th-this c-can’t be right,” I stutter. “Tom? Lisa?

What’s happening? What’s wrong with me?”

“Not again,” Adam groans. “Now we’re going to have to have her repaired again. That means we’ll have to do all this ourselves for a whole week.” Tom sighs and walks over towards me.

“Adam! Remember that before the accident, she was your sister,” he says. “Now Regina, just stay calm. It’s all going to be okay.” Tom reaches his arm behind me and into the top of my shirt. It’s like he’s looking for something at the base of my neck.

“Tom? Tom what’s going on? What accident? Tell me what’s happ—”

The day starts like any other day. My alarm wakes me up at 6:00 a.m. After some light stretching to warm myself up, I go into the bathroom and start my morning routine.

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7. LITERATURE: Who wrote the Greek play “The Trojan Women”?

8. U.S. PRESIDENTS: Who was Abraham Lincoln’s first vice president?

* It was French playwright and actor Louis Verneuil who made the following sage observation: “The prime purpose of eloquence is to keep other people from talking.” * With only two known to exist, the rarest U.S. postage stamp is an 1868 1-cent Benjamin Franklin Z-Grill, so called because of the shape that was impressed into the stamp. One of the Z-Grills is in the collection of the New York Public Library, and the other was sold in 1998 for $935,000. That’s not the end of the story, though; in 2005, the same stamp was traded for a block of stamps valued at $3 million.

9. MOVIES: Which early 20th-century film actress was dubbed “America’s Sweetheart”?

10. GAMES: How many balls are used in pocket billiards? (c) 2019 King Features Synd., Inc.

* The year 1828 was a sad one for winemakers.

For unknown reasons, 80 percent of the bottles of Champagne bottled that year exploded. * There is a law on the books in Maine that prohibits having your shoes untied in public. I assume that one is not much enforced. * In 2002, in an effort to be more environmentally friendly, Ireland decided to try to reduce the use of plastic grocery bags by levying a 15-cent tax on each one. It worked, too -- use of the bags dropped by 95 percent. * Sir Christopher Wren, who designed the famous London landmark St. Paul’s Cathedral, was an astronomer, not an architect. His other achievements included developing a method for calculating eclipses and devising a way to measure the rings of Saturn.

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* Back in 1935, the owner of the Chicago Cubs baseball team predicted that night games were “just a fad.” He wasn’t much of a prognosticator, it seems.

Thought for the Day: “It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.” -- Andre Gide

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Sports Quiz Answers 11. Hank Aaron and Frank Robinson.

2. It was 2002, when four managers (Colorado’s Buddy Bell, Milwaukee’s Davey Lopes, Detroit’s Phil Garner and Kansas City’s Tony Muser) were fired in April 3. Eighteen years (last in playoffs in 1999).

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