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became one of the most famous episodes of the Cold War. ▲ On July 25, 1965, Bob Dylan went electric at the Newport Folk Festival, performing a rock-and-roll set publicly for the first time. The dismayed audience shouted and booed when he launched into an electrified version of “Maggie’s Farm.”

▲ On July 26, 1775, the U.S. postal system is established by the Second Continental Congress, with Benjamin Franklin as its first postmaster general.

Franklin set up more efficient colonial routes and standardized delivery costs ▲ On July 28, 1976, a “On Stage” Entertainment All Day nighttime earthquake measuring based on distance and weight. \ between 7.8 and 8.2 magnitude For Kids and Adults Alike ▲ On July 22, 1933, American Wiley on the Richter scale flattens Pie Eating Contest (open to all) Post returns to Floyd Bennett Field in Tangshan, a Chinese industrial Pie Tin Art Contest Pie Entry Auction after the contest New York, becoming the first aviator city with a population of pie tins available for $1 1 million.

The 23-second to fly solo around the world. Piloting a “Sweet as Pie” Car Show Lockheed Vega monoplane named the temblor leveled 90 percent of Learn all about it at: PieDay.com Quilt Show Winnie May, he circled the globe in 7 Tangshan’s buildings, killing an estimated 242,000 people in days, 18 hours and 49 minutes. the city and surrounding areas. ▲ On July 29, 1862, Confederate spy ▲ On Aug. 1, 1972, in the “Match of the ▲ On July 27, 1949, the world’s first Marie Isabella “Belle” Boyd is arrested Century,” American chess grandmaster ▲ On July 23, 1996, at the Summer jet-propelled airliner, the British De Havilland Comet, makes its maiden Olympics in Atlanta, the U.S. women’s by Union troops and held at the Old Bobby Fischer defeats Russian Boris test-flight in England. The jet engine gymnastics team wins its first-ever team Capitol Prison in Washington, D.C. Spassky during the World Chess would revolutionize the airline industry, gold. The American women’s best finish It was the first of three arrests for the Championship in Reykjavik, Iceland. to that point had been a silver at the 1984 skilled spy, who later parlayed her spying Fischer became the first American to shrinking air travel time in half. experiences into a book and an acting win the competition since its inception Los Angeles Olympics. in 1866. career. ▲ On July 24, 1959, during the grand ▲ On Aug. 4, 1854, Henry David opening ceremony of the American National Exhibition in Moscow, Vice Thoreau’s classic “Walden” is published. ▲ On July 30, 1956, President Dwight ▲ On Aug. 2, 1990, Iraqi forces invade President Richard Nixon and Soviet Thoreau was a 27-year-old Harvard Eisenhower signs a law officially Kuwait, Iraq’s tiny, oil-rich neighbor, and leader Nikita Khrushchev engage in a graduate when he moved to Walden Pond declaring “In God We Trust” to be the gain control of 20 percent of the world’s heated debate in a model kitchen set and built the 10-by-15-foot cabin on land nation’s official motto and mandating that oil reserves. On Aug. 9, Operation up for the fair. The “kitchen debate” owned by his friend, poet Ralph Waldo the phrase be printed on all U.S. paper Desert Shield began as U.S. forces raced Emerson. currency. to the Persian Gulf.

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• Betta fish do not flourish when confined to tiny cups of water. They have evolved to be able to get air directly from the atmosphere, and can survive droughts when they are temporarily trapped in small pools of water, but most betta fish in the wild inhabit huge rice paddies where they move freely and are seldom confined to small puddles of water for very long. All betta fish benefit from aeration, filtration, heated water, and having room to move and places to hide.

• Most cats are lactose intolerant and get stomach aches and diarrhea from drinking milk.

• Autism is not caused by vaccines.

Vaccines are typically given to children when they are reaching the age when symptoms of autism start to manifest but there is no evidence that the two events are connected. Also, autistic people do not generally tend to have “special powers” as portrayed in the film “Rain Man.” • Bats are not blind; they have eyes and can see perfectly well.

• You will not get stomach cramps and die if you swim after eating. There is a correlation between alcohol and drowning, however.

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• The total death count in the Holocaust was not just 6 million Jews.

It is true that about 6 million Jews were exterminated, but gypsies, homosexuals, criminals, POWs, and the disabled (among others) were also exterminated in the death camps. The total number ranges closer to 11 million. If you count all the people who died during World War II, including soldiers and civilians, and those who died from disease and starvation, the total is about 60 million.

• CPR rarely brings a person back to life. In TV dramas, CPR is completely successful about 75% of the time, but in reality only about 10 to 20% of people who require CPR are revived and go on to live healthy lives. The success stories generally concern those who were healthy to start with, such as young children who drown or marathon runners who have a crisis while running. People who were already old or ill prior to requiring CPR seldom recover, and often recover only to suffer from brain damage, broken ribs, or

other injuries.

• There are no distinct “zones” for sweet, bitter, sour, and salty on your tongue. All different tastes can be detected on all parts of the tongue by all taste buds.

• There are no specific diets or herbs that help “detox” the body by flushing substances from your body.

In reality, your liver and kidneys do it automatically.

• Frankenstein was not a monster.

Dr. Frankenstein was the name of the man who created the monster, who was called “Frankenstein’s monster.”

• Lemmings do not engage in mass suicidal dives off cliffs when migrating.

Lemmings are good swimmers and will endeavor to swim across bodies of water they encounter when moving into new territories.

• Water going down a drain does not consistently swirl in either a clockwise or counter-clockwise direction depending on where it is in relationship to the equator.

• Humans did not evolve from chimpanzees. However, chimpanzees and humans share a common ancestor who lived between 6 and 8 million years ago.

• There is no evidence that Vikings wore horns on their helmets. This theory originated with the costume designer for an opera by Richard Wagner, and stuck.

• Christopher Columbus never set foot on what is now the continental U.S.

He only landed on Caribbean Islands. He was not proving that the Earth is round; that was already well-known by the time he set out.

• Orson Welles’ 1938 radio adaptation of H.G. Wells’ “The War of the Worlds” did not cause widespread panic in the U.S. • Thomas Edison did not invent the lightbulb; he merely invented an improved model. Henry Ford did not invent the assembly line; he merely improved it.

• Humans and dinosaurs did not ever live at the same time. The last of the dinosaurs died 65.5 million years ago, and the earliest humans evolved about 2.4 million years ago.

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• Stella Liebeck was 79 years old when her grandson took her through a McDonald’s drive-through in Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1992. She ordered a 49 cent cup of coffee, and her grandson pulled over into an empty spot in the parking lot while she fiddled with the lid in an attempt to add cream and sugar. She was in the passenger’s seat of a 1989 Ford Probe which did not have cup holders. Liebeck placed the coffee cup between her knees and pulled the lid toward her to remove it. Instead, she spilled the coffee on her lap.

• This wouldn’t have been such a big deal, except that the coffee was 190 degrees F, just 22 degrees away from boiling. The cotton pants she was wearing trapped the scalding liquid next to her skin. Although her grandson rushed her to the hospital, by the time she arrived, she had received third-degree burns on her legs, hips, and pelvic region.

• Liebeck was hospitalized for eight days while she underwent skin grafts. She suffered third-degree burns on 6% of her skin, and lesser burns on 16%.

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(9.1 kg) which was nearly 20% of her body weight, ending up weighing just 83 pounds (38 kg). After being discharged from the hospital, Liebeck required nursing care at home for three weeks, which was provided by her daughter. She was partially disabled for two years and remained scarred for the rest of her life.

• Stella Liebeck asked the McDonald’s corporation to cover her unpaid medical bills, which amounted to less than $20,000. That included $10,500 for her current out-of-pocket medical expenses; future medical expenses estimated to be $2,500; and her daughter’s loss of income of about $5,000. Instead, McDonald’s offered her $800 total. When they refused to budge, Stella Liebeck got a lawyer and sued.

• Texas attorney Reed Morgan accused McDonald’s of gross negligence for selling coffee that was unreasonably hot. Lawyers for McDonald’s refused all of Morgan’s offers to settle out of court, including an offer for $90,000. The case went to trial in 1994.

• McDonald’s said that they needed to serve coffee that hot because most people expected to drink it on a long commute to work and didn’t want it to get cold on the way. Morgan showed evidence that most people expect to drink it immediately. McDonald’s argued that all restaurants serve coffee that hot.

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restaurants served it 20 degrees cooler.

Morgan had a doctor testify that liquid that’s 190 degrees will deliver third degree burns within three seconds, while liquid that’s 20 degrees cooler will deliver burns within 12 seconds.

• But the tide really turned in Stella Liebeck’s favor when Morgan showed evidence that over 700 people had been scalded by McDonald’s coffee over the previous ten years, and McDonald’s had still refused to turn the temperature down.

• After a ten day trial, the jury ruled in favor of Liebeck, who had only wanted her medical expenses covered.

McDonald’s was fined $2.7 million, which amounted to two days’ worth of income from coffee sales for the corporation.

Of that, Stella Liebeck received around $600,000.

• Still, McDonald’s controlled the national narrative surrounding this court case. They ran an effective campaign highlighting ridiculous lawsuits people had filed over the years, implying that hers was equally insipid. Seinfeld mocked the lawsuit. David Letterman ranked it on one of his top ten lists. Long before Stella Liebeck died in 2004 at the age of 91, she had become known as the lazy, greedy lady who blamed McDonald’s for her own clumsiness. Few people know the truth.

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- It takes Mosquitoes about 8 days to grow from an egg to an adult. Knowing this, it is recommended to empty any areas of standing water, at least once per week, to reduce Mosquito populations increasing around your home.

- Studies in the Journal of American Mosquito Control Association show that using Neem Oil and Coconut Oil mixed together will repel mosquitoes for up to 8 hours.

Good Nature offers a Neem Oil Soap, which in addition to containing Neem, is comprised of B Vitamins, Lemon Essential Oil, and Tea Tree Oil. Each of these ingredients has health benefits, as well as Mosquito repelling properties.

- Some authorities on the subject believe that eating bananas or drinking beer prior to going outside can make you more susceptible to Mosquito bites. So, it's possible that enjoying a few beers outside might make you more attractive to Mosquitoes. You could try to get your hands on Garlic Breath Beer, a Dogfish Head Beer brewed with garlic to see if the garlic repellent offsets the beer attractant. If you do this, please let us know how it goes!

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I don’t often suggest brand names in this column, but in a few cases it’s worthwhile to let you know things I’ve personally tried.

If you need work on your computer, consider Geek Squad. They’re part of Best Buy (BestBuy.com). If you have a store near you, you can go there to sign up and also leave your device for repair. Call ahead.

In many cases, depending on the problem, you don’t have to take in your device. If you call Geek Squad, they can do a remote access. If the problem is something like a bug, in many instances they can fix it from their end while you sit at home and watch the screen. If you contact Geek Squad for any reason, ask if you need to consider getting Webroot (www.webroot.com) anti-virus.

I also can recommend Kim Komando, a woman with a tech website full of information you need (www.komando.com). She also has a weekly radio show.

You can sign up for free weekly email newsletters that are worthwhile, full of safety and how-to information. (c) 2019 King Features Synd., Inc.

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FACT v. FICTION • Although it is commonly thought that you can boil a frog to death by raising the temperature of the water it’s in extremely slowly so that it doesn’t notice, the truth is that the frog will jump out of the water as soon as it starts to feel uncomfortable.

• There is no waiting period for filing a “missing person” report. You are encouraged to call the police as soon as you feel something might be amiss.

• Lobsters and other crustaceans are able to feel distress and pain; it’s far kinder to kill them with a knife or chill them until they become insensible before dropping them into boiling water.

• Nobody was burned at the stake during the Salem witch trials. However, 19 people were hung, (14 women and 5 men) and one man was pressed to death with heavy stones after he refused to enter a plea, but no one was burned. Others were accused but died in prison while awaiting trial, or escaped, or were pardoned. The trials took place in four separate towns: Salem Village (now Danvers), Salem Town, Ipswich, and Andover, Massachusetts.

• As a child, Albert Einstein actually did very well in school as a boy and excelled in math.

The story that he did poorly in his studies arose from the fact that both Switzerland and Germany grade on a scale of 1 to six. However, in Germany 6 is the worst grade, similar to an “F” in the U.S., while in Switzerland a 6 is equivalent to an “A.” When people in Germany first got a look at his Swiss report card, they spread the word that he had nearly flunked out of school. When Einstein was shown a clipping from the newspaper column “Ripley’s Believe It Or Not” (which was famous for failing to fact-check their claims, thus leading to the “Or Not”) Einstein disputed the claim that he failed his way through school, adding, “Before I was 15 I had mastered differential and integral calculus.”

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