TMC FRIDAY 6-18-21

• 7:20AM:  Totally Possible Trivia  (Amigos)
• 8:20AM:  Survey Says?!  (Kearney Cinema 8)
• 9:10AM:  PREMIER RENTAL-PURCHASE FATHER’S DAY GIVEAWAY GRAND PRIZE DRAWING  ($1,500 GRILL & $200 FRITZ’S MEAT GIFT CARD)
• 9:30AM:  Club KQ  (Kearney Cinema 8)

STORY 1:  Here Are the Top Gifts Dads Want for Father’s Day This Year

If you haven’t gotten your dad anything for Father’s Day yet, you’ve still got time to get most of the stuff on this list.  Someone polled a bunch of dads and asked what they want for Father’s Day.  Here are the top ten things dads are hoping to get . . .

1. Doing something special with the family, like a hike or going to a pool. A separate Father’s Day poll ALSO found that’s #1 this year.
2. A card. It actually tied for first place.
3. Clothes.
4. Something homemade. Especially dads with young kids.
5. Tools.
6. Electronics.
7. Something related to one of his hobbies.
8. A gift certificate for something fun.
9. Having the day to himself. One in nine dads want everyone to leave them alone.
10. Food, beer, wine, or liquor.

Only 3% of dads said they’d love to get flowers.

Go here for more.

STORY 2:  Ten Facts for the Official Start of Summer

The official start of summer is this Sunday.  If that’s not specific enough, the EXACT moment summer starts is 11:32 p.m. Eastern, 8:32 p.m. Pacific.

That’s when the North Pole is at its maximum tilt toward the sun, making it the longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere.

Here are ten more facts for the start of summer . . .

1. The term “dog days of summer” comes from astronomy. Sirius is called the “Dog Star” and rises in late July.  In ancient Greece, the “dog days” meant the hottest part of the year.
2. The world’s largest scoop of ice cream weighed 3,010 pounds. A company in Wisconsin pulled it off in 2014, and then used it to hand out free scoops all weekend.
3. We tend to be happier in summer. A study in 2011 found it’s true by analyzing tweets from 2.4 million people.  They say it might be because there’s just more sun.
4. The Eiffel Tower gets six inches taller in summer, because the metal expands from the heat.
5. Wham-O started selling Frisbees in 1957. But the first frisbees were actually PIE TINS college students liked to throw around.  And it’s also where the name came from.  They got the tins from the Frisbie Pie Company in Bridgeport, Connecticut.
6. We’ll eat around 150 million hot dogs on Fourth of July weekend alone this summer. That’s enough to stretch across the country more than five times.
7. There are over 300 varieties of watermelon in the world.
8. There’s enough water in an Olympic-sized swimming pool to take 9,400 baths. That’s enough to take one bath a day for 25 years.
9. Popsicles were invented by mistake. Back in 1905, a guy in San Francisco left some sugary water out overnight, and it froze.  Then he realized it was delicious.
10. Americans drink about three billion gallons of iced tea a year. According to the national Tea Association, over 75% of all the tea we drink here is of the iced variety.

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STORY 3:  A Company Installed Cameras That Force Workers to Smile to Unlock Doors

No one can make you like your job, but at least one major company is now forcing its workers to FAKE it.

The company Canon makes printers, camera lenses, and a bunch of other stuff.  And their offices in China recently installed A.I. cameras that force employees to SMILE in order to open doors or book meetings.

If you try to open a door while frowning, the facial recognition software won’t unlock it for you.  You have to smile . . . so that way it knows you’re happy and EXCITED to be at work each day.

Go here for more including a photo.

DID YOU KNOW?

1. Bono’s mother died when he was 14 . . . she had a brain aneurysm at her father’s funeral. So yeah, his mom died at his grandpa’s funeral.  That’s awful.
2. Based on his height and the weight of marshmallows, the “Stay Puft Marshmallow Man” from “Ghostbusters” would weigh about 3.87 million pounds. Or about 2,000 tons.
3. The Morgan Freeman movie “10 Items or Less” was the first film that was legally available for downloading, in 2006.
4. There’s only one NHL team that’s won every time it’s made it to the Stanley Cup Finals. The Colorado Avalanche are 2-and-0.
5. From 2011 through 2012, China produced more cement than the U.S. did throughout the entire 20th century.