To hell with Trump. To hell with Congress. To hell with Supreme Courts.
Time for a reason for tomorrow.
1. Many of the rescued Thai boys did not know how to swim and were given anti-anxiety medications before being helped out by divers.
2. It took 11 hours for a diver to make the five-mile round trip to reach the boys.
3. All the while, hundreds of gallons of water were being pumped out of the cave — the equivalent of 48 Olympic-sized swimming pools in a 75-hour period. In an effort to stop the flooding, authorities also dammed streams that flowed into the caves. Natural shafts that dumped water into the caves were also plugged.
4. Divers used “Heyphones,” a 20-year-old technology, to communicate with the rescue base. The ultra-low frequency transmitters are able to penetrate through rock and send divers’ locations and messages.
5. Approximately 90 divers were involved in the rescue. About 50 were foreigners.
6. Rescuers transferred about 100 oxygen tanks to the cave to help improve the air supply. Thai diver PO Saman Gunan had been helping transfer the tanks when he got into difficulties on the way back and did not have enough air himself. He died after losing consciousness in one of the passageways and his colleagues could not revive him.
If I hear one more newscaster, shop keep or friendly passerby say ‘At least it’s a dry heat,’ I’m going to lose what’s left of my unmelted mind. Microwaves cook with a dry heat, too. They’ll still detonate your goddamn corn.
Now for something a little cooler, factslaps:
The only difference between fog and mist is visibility: if you can’t see more than 100 metres ahead, it’s fog, not mist.
Prior to 1868, eating meat from four legged animals had been prohibited in Japan for more than a thousand years.
The Dutch army had only one tank during WWII.
Most Americans can buy an AR-15 rifle before they can legally buy a beer.
Japanese manufacture Toto built a motorcycle that runs on poop.
Al Pacino turned down the role of Han Solo in the Star Wars franchise.
Porsche’s first car, in 1898, was electric.
The Mayor of Bogotá, Colombia, once hired 420 mimes artists to make fun of traffic violators because he believes Colombians fear ridicule more than being fined.
A study says 13.9 million people call in sick or arrive late to work the day after the Super Bowl.
The Nazis are believed to have sterilized 400,000 Germans deemed to have lives not worth living.
Scooby Doo, Where Are You! was originally called Who’s S-S-Scared?
The cities of Jericho, Luxor, Damascus, Byblos and Beirut have been continuously inhabited for more than 5,000 years.
One of the oldest species of animal still with us are the horseshoe crabs who appeared 445 million years ago. They’ve survived for 75% of the entire span of animal life on the planet.
The Nigerian film industry, or Nollywood, is the second largest in the world in terms of numbers of films produced.
In 1996, Australia enacted strict gun laws. It had no mass shooting since.
