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On July 27, 2026, John Kauterman found a sealed bottle from a nine-year-old girl who put it in the water on August 20, 1973 from Ocean City, NJ. As a joke she wrote, “This bottle was adrift on August 20, 1973 on 2nd Street beach Ocean City as my captors were transporting me to an island off shore in the Atlantic. Please notify my family that a band of ruthless sponge fisherma...

Be creative in doing your work. A New Jersey police department is really creative. Because people are driving and looking at their phones, they have placed a camouflaged policeman in a scraggly tree on a busy thoroughfare. He has a pair of binoculars and reports people who are using their phone while driving. They don’t see him because they are looking at their phone. It has ...

Harry Potter fans exert more influence than most of us realize. An undersea power line that links Wales and Ireland, which is valued at $580 million, was rerouted because Potter fans noted that the power line crossed a beach that was used to film the burial of the fictitious house elf Dobby. Actually, the new route goes close to the grave of Dobby, but the project manager, Si...

Often times a problem can turn out to be a blessing. Johnson Thompson is an Alabama teenager who had a problem sleeping. On June 30, 2026, he was awake at 4:30 in the morning so he decided to get up and go to his parent’s workshop and get an early start on the day. On the way, he saw a 76-year-old lady trying to get in a closed business. He discovered that she was disoriented...

Many of us witnessed the July 4th fireworks in Washington that was claimed by President Trump to be “the largest fireworks show in history.” Guiness World records confirmed it. Over 840,537 fireworks were detonated in a period of 40 minutes. That’s a lot of noise and power displayed in a short length of time. The show did push the air quality in Washington into the Code Purpl...