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Cigar-Smoking Contest Crowns Swedish Champ

3 April 2019 Wake-Up Crew

We had never heard of this contest before on the Wake-Up Crew! Entrants who make it to these Thailand cigar-smoking finals have to smoke their stogie for as long as possible, and maintain the ash on the end of it to boot. A Swedish man won the big prize recently for making his last over an hour, but that didn’t even come close to the world record–check out the full story here!

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Lonnie's Fun Fact for Thursday December 5, 2019. Neil Armstrong's astronaut application arrived a week past the deadline. A friend slipped the tardy form in with the others. His application arrived about a week past the June 1, 1962, deadline, but Dick Day, a flight simulator expert with whom Armstrong had worked closely at Edwards, saw the late arrival of the application and slipped it into the pile before anyone noticed. At Brooks Air Force Base at the end of June, Armstrong underwent a medical exam that many of the applicants described as painful and at times seemingly pointless. NASA's Director of Flight Crew Operations, Deke Slayton, , called Armstrong on September 13, 1962, and asked whether he would be interested in joining the NASA Astronaut Corps as part of what the press dubbed "the New Nine"; without hesitation, Armstrong said yes. The selections were kept secret until three days later, although newspaper reports had circulated since earlier that year that he would be selected as the "first civilian astronaut". Armstrong was one of two civilian pilots selected for this group; the other was Elliot See , another former naval aviator. NASA announced the selection of the second group at a press conference on September 17, 1962. Compared with the Mercury Seven astronauts, they were younger, and had more impressive academic credentials. Listen to the micro podcast here; theriver953.com/podcast/fun-fact-thursday-december-5-2019/ ... See MoreSee Less

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We’ve got Shenandoah University Basketball tonight on The River 95-3 as the Saints of Marymount invade the Wilkins Center. Tip off is 7pm as the Hornets go for win number 4! ... See MoreSee Less

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Lonnie's Fun Fact for Wednesday December 4, 2019. Sleep literally cleans your brain. During slumber, more cerebrospinal fluid flushes through the brain to wash away harmful proteins and toxins that build up during the day.
While the brain sleeps, it clears out harmful toxins, a process that may reduce the risk of Alzheimer's, researchers say. During sleep, the flow of cerebrospinal fluid in the brain increases dramatically, washing away harmful waste proteins that build up between brain cells during waking hours, a study of mice found. "It's like a dishwasher," says Dr. Maiken Nedergaard, a professor of neurosurgery at the University of Rochester and an author of the study in Science. The results appear to offer the best explanation yet of why animals and people need sleep. If this proves to be true in humans as well, it could help explain a mysterious association between sleep disorders and brain diseases, including Alzheimer's. The scientists noticed that during sleep, the system that circulates cerebrospinal fluid through the brain and nervous system was "pumping fluid into the brain and removing fluid from the brain in a very rapid pace," Nedergaard says. Listen to the micro podcast here; theriver953.com/podcast/fun-fact-wednesday-december-4-2019/ ... See MoreSee Less

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