- Bosses who notice an employee’s performance drop in one aspect of the job shouldn’t immediately think the employee is slacking off. A study led by a University of Toronto professor discovered that in many cases the employee has just shifted and refocused his efforts on a different set of tasks, which should be considered a positive sign of adaptability.

- Research suggests a surprising advantage to dressing up for the workday. Wearing more formal clothing changes the way that people think, helping them to focus on the big picture. The study (Columbia University and California State University, Northridge) found that wearing formal clothing leads to more big-picture thinking, rather than concrete thinking that focuses on the details.

- You may want to sit down for this, but a study proved the impossible: children eat more vegetables when they’re sweetened with sugar. The researchers (University of Connecticut) think this is just fine if sugar is used as a tool to get the kids eating vegetables in the first place. Once that’s achieved, sugar can be left out of the meal

WACKY-BUT-TRUE: MAN CAUGHT CAMPING ON DISNEY’S DISCOVERY ISLAND _ A Florida man is facing trespassing charges after security found him camping on Walt Disney World’s Discovery Island. After receiving a call deputies searched for 42-year-old Richard McGuire on foot, by helicopter, and by boat before finally making contact with him. According to an arrest report, McGuire told deputies he’d planned to stay for about a week.

… Discovery Island, which was a zoological attraction before Disney’s Animal Kingdom park opened, has been closed since 1999. All of Disney’s Orlando-area theme parks are also currently closed due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

WACKY-BUT-TRUE: CAR STOLEN BUT RETURNED WITH ADDITIONAL GAS _ A car vanished from a Wisconsin home, and just hours later it turned up — filled with gas.

WACKY-BUT-TRUE: FRENCHMAN GOES TO PRISON OVER SOAP _ A guy in France traveled to Spain to pick up a load of 2,850 bars of soap from a factory. Shortly after the pickup, he was pulled over. Police demanded to know what the cargo was. Soap, the man replied. But a test showed it was cocaine and the man was arrested. But a lab test later confirmed it really was soap, not cocaine. The man demanded compensation for the wrongful arrest and the resulting 70 days of incarceration. All he got from Spain was $129 per day, the “standard rate” it offers for wrongful imprisonment.

WACKY-BUT-TRUE: DINGBAT DRUNK TRIES TO REVIVE DINGHY _ A man in France called emergency services requesting an ambulance to be sent to the shipyards, where he was attempting to resuscitate a victim. When police officers arrived, the extremely drunk 22-year-old man told them the victim was not responding, and he had been administering CPR to revive him. Police then noticed the drunk man was underneath a boat, on his knees, trying to resuscitate a rubber life raft.

WACKY-BUT-TRUE: HIGH-SPEED TOW _ In Germany a man offered assistance to a guy whose car had broken down on the side of the highway. The man offered to attach a tow rope to the other guy’s car to get him to a service station. Sounds like a pretty nice offer. The German guy then proceeded to zip down the highway at up to 100 miles per hour. The guy being towed was trapped in his towed car, and all he could do is flash his lights and honk his horn. Eventually he caught the attention of other drivers, who called police, who forced the tow guy to slow down.

Question of the Podcast - Do you consider yourself to be a superstitious person?

8 parts of your body you should never touch

Fun Facts

✓ The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com.

✓ Honey is used sometimes for antifreeze mixtures and in the center of golf balls.

- French women have apparently found the key to happiness — in chocolate. According to a poll, French woman say food — and chocolate in particular — is the most important factor in happiness. Men chose sex as number one, and gave it a 7.5 out of ten when ranking elements of well-being. French women gave sex a 6.7 and said they would prefer less sex to less food. Men, of course, chose less food.

WHAT AMERICANS BUY EACH YEAR

• Coffee: $11 billion

• Girl Scout Cookies: $800 million

• Soft Drinks: $65 billion

• Bottled Water: $11 billion

• Groceries: $478 billion

• Professional Sports: $25.4 billion

• Dollar Store Purchases: $30 billion

• Alternative Medicine: $33.9 billion

• Toilet Paper: $2.6 billion

• Taxidermy: $800 million

• Lawn Care: $40 billion

• Child Care: $47 billion

FOOD SUPERSTITIONS

• Bake a cake while the sun is rising, and don’t throw away the eggshells until the baking is done.

• Tossing coffee grounds under steps that lead to the kitchen will rid the home of ants.

• If you accidentally swallow some seeds while eating a grape, they’ll give you appendicitis.

• The sound of thunder can turn milk sour.

• Tipping over a slice of cake on a plate while serving a guest brings bad luck.

• Eating the crust of bread will give you curly hair.

• Peel an apple until it breaks and toss the rind. Whatever letter it forms is the first letter of your true love’s name.

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