The Hump-Day Scoop

Welcome to Hump-Day ya’ll!  You are halfway there, you can do it!  

Hump Day Scoop Facts for June 27th

• Today June 27 is the 178th day of 2018.
• There are 187 days remaining in the year.
• Here in PA, sunrise is 5:27 a.m. and sunset 8:31 p.m.
• Today is:
  • Helen Keller Day
  • National HIV Testing Day
  • National PTSD Awareness Day
  • Happy Birthday to You Day
  • Industrial Workers of the World Day
  • International Ragweed Day
  • National Indian Pudding Day
  • National Orange Blossom Day
• The Moon today is in a Waxing Gibbous phase.  The moon is more than 50% illuminated.
• Cancer is the Astrological sign.  A few famous people born today:
  • Helen Keller
  • Tobey Maguire
  • JJ Abrams
  • Vera Wang
  • Ross Perot
• June’s birth flowers are the Honeysuckle (love/affection) and Rose (love/desire).
• 1693 – 1st women’s magazine “Ladies’ Mercury” publish in London
• 1859 – The melody of “Happy Birthday to You” was composed by Mildred J. Hill, a teacher from Louisville, KY
• 1929 –  1st color TV demo, Bell Labs in NYC
• 1954 –  1st atomic power station, Obninsk, Russia
• 1960 – “Everybody’s Somebody’s Fool” hits #1 becoming the first #1 by a female solo act, Connie Francis
• 1964 – Peter & Gordon’s “A World Without Love” written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney, goes to #1 in the US
• 1970 – The group Smile change their name to Queen and perfrom for the first time under that name.
• 1980 – Three songs into Led Zeppelin’s concert in Nuremberg, drummer John Bonham collapses during “Black Dog”.  He dies in September.

Here are a few random facts for you to use around the water cooler.

1. Most toilets flush in E flat.
2. Cap’n Crunch’s full name is Horatio Magellan Crunch.
3. Approzimately 40,000 Americans are injured every year by toilets.
4. It takes 142.18 licks to reach the center of a Tootsie pop.
5. You can’t say happiness without saying penis.

Bet you smiled!! 🙂

Until Next Time –You are never alone, Jenn.

Facts from:

calendar.songfacts.com/June/27/

onthisday.com/day/june/27

wikipedia.com

thepeoplehistory.com/june27th

thoughtcatalog.com/jacob-geers/2016/04/really-funny-random-weird-facts/