The Morning Four

What are the odds that your wired headphones will get tangled up in your bag? Who first discovered caffeine's addictive nature? Who are the young people making the world a better place? These questions answered and more on today's show. 

Helpful links from today's show:

Wireless need: https://www.sciencealert.com/the-mathematical-law-that-causes-your-headphones-to-tangle

Caffeine thoughts: https://fortune.com/2019/02/08/friedlieb-ferdinand-runge-caffeine/

Teens saving oceans: https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/15-teens-awarded-for-each-launching-projects-to-protect-oceans-from-plastic/

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Did you know that forecasting the weather is a relatively new phenomenon? Today's episode also talks about a film all about paint drying and the world's oldest living married couple.

https://crazyfacts.com/in-the-mid-19th-century/

https://mashable.com/2016/01/26/paint-drying-film-protest/

https://www.kxan.com/news/worlds-oldest-couple-lives-in-austin-their-advice-for-a-happy-life/

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Take some time to reach WAY back in your fridge day and de-gunk it. It's also a good day to take stock of your recycling habits and improve them. Today's feel-good news story features a neighborly act of kidney donation.

Helpful links from today's show:

Clean Fridge/Recycling: https://nationaltoday.com/november-holidays/

First headphones: https://thetechfacts.com/the-first-headphone/

Donated kidney: https://www.gwinnettdailypost.com/local/woman-donates-kidney-to-neighbor-s-son-in-ultimate-act/article_bbb029de-f1d1-11e9-bbde-f33abafa536b.html

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Host Katie Parsons reflects on her own acts of kindness and wonders if she does enough for the everyday people in her own life.

If you love cruises, perhaps you'd love the floating hotel featured in today's episode? There's also information on 3D printing in space and the kindness of a homeless man when he saw someone in need. Stick around for the daily affirmation. 

Helpful links from today's show:

Floating hotel: https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2018-06-14/the-bizarre-story-of-australias-floating-hotel/9849482

3D printing in space: https://thetechfacts.com/3d-printing-is-also-possible-in-zero-gravity/

Homeless kindness: https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/photo-of-homeless-man-changing-single-moms-tire-warms-hearts-kindness-matters-231047723.html

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What U.S. city has the cleanest air? Find out on today's show that also celebrates World Kindness Day. 

Helpful links from today's show:

Cleanest air: https://www.traveltrivia.com/us-cities-cleanest-air/

World Kindness Day: 

https://nationaltoday.com/november-13-holidays/

Baby kindness: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/uber-driver-who-picked-up-passenger-from-nicu-surprises-new-mom-by-buying-30-new-outfits-for-her-baby-consignment-shop/?intcid=CNI-00-10aaa3a

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The Hope Diamond arrived at the Smithsonian Museum in an unusual (but common) fashion. Today's episode debunks a myth from space and has a feel-good news item about well wishes sent 8 months too late.

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Hope Diamond: https://www.traveltrivia.com/4-fascinating-facts-about-mail-from-around-the-world/

Great wall: https://www.traveltrivia.com/5-lies-you-were-taught-about-the-earth/

Late Valentine’s Day: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-50345471?ns_campaign=bbcnews&ocid=socialflow_facebook&ns_source=facebook&ns_mchannel=social&fbclid=IwAR21-aCje1mrOd0IAuOKAMcSyqD_fxl2lVvmq-kvE7Wi77uwUQBmZ2eT220

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Ants have a sophisticated paramedic system and the falcon is faster than you think. Learn about a fat cat who has the internet behind her as she tries to get healthier. 

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Ant Paramedics:

https://crazyfacts.com/ants-have-designated-paramedics/

Falcon facts: https://www.portablepress.com/blog/2018/04/amazing-animal-records/

Cinderblock the cat: 

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Host Katie Parsons looks at her own struggles with waking up in a panic - and reevaluating how she looks at the everyday moments in her life.

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Shakespeare had more education than most people believe -- and he left a joke for his wife in his will. Today's feel good news story embraces a "new girl" on the one-year anniversary of the death of someone close to her. 

Helpful links from today's show:

Shakespeare facts: https://www.portablepress.com/blog/2019/04/great-myths-of-william-shakespeare/

High School Wears Yellow:

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/high-school-wear-yellow-for-new-student-and-her-late-friend/

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