Weird News

I realize Distracted Driving Awareness Month was last week, but, in my humble opinion, ANY time is a good time to be reminded of the dangers of distracted driving.

My mother's place is like our family museum. There are "exhibits" on shelves and glass showcases plus photography, some of which hangs on the walls and most of which lies in scrapbooks in albums.

First we had the sheepsquatch, now we have the Pope Lick Monster AKA the Goatman. It's like a couple of guys ate some radioactive mutton, or something, and mutated.

Who knew that before I get on the air at 2PM each weekday, you're being entertained by a former major role player in the Mexican Revolution and a former jazz trumpeter?

Wikipedia tells me that Charles' Law is an experimental gas law that describes how gases tend to expand when heated. And what I did with a bar of Ivory Soap is supposed to exemplify that law.

Well, this is delightful! I did a little surfing around the Internet this morning and stumbled across this video.  It's Alltime 10's The 10 Things That Will Kill You in Under an Hour!  Or my new name for it . . . The 10 Things Chad is Going to Avoid Like the Bubonic Plague.  WATCH!

It's always frustrating when someone is sitting at a green light or weaving in their traffic lane and the reason behind such behavior is cell phone usage.

We have big butts and we cannot lie.  LOL!!  Did you ever wonder why humans have big butts?  Well, the Smithsonian appears to have the answer.  Check out this video from the Smithsonian Channel on YouTube.  It's pretty cool and, honestly, I would never have guessed this to be reason why there's so much junk in our trunks.

What's the worst Owensboro intersection you can think of? Parrish and Frederica? Parrish and J.R. Miller? Frederica and Goetz Drive or Frederica and Southtown?

Mind blown. These words are too commonly thrown around to show how crazy a situation really is. Did you see that walk-off homer? #MindBlown. Can you believe Carrie wore that dress to the ACM's? #MindBlown. Now, we all know that those type of things aren't really mind-blowing. But, this is.

I was kind of hacked when the Mountain Dew/peroxide/baking soda-makes-a-lantern trick didn't work. I wanted to see something glow that didn't normally!

The Waverly Hills Sanatorium in Louisville, Kentucky was used for over fifty years to quarantine tuberculosis patients, most of which met their brutal demise inside the hospital. It was shut down in 1961, after a successful antibiotic against TB was discovered, but reopened again in 1962 and used as a geriatric facility until sometime in 1980.