FROM DAY 6
• THE HALF-DOZEN MOST INTERESTING FACTS AND FIGURES BRENT BAMBURY FOUND THIS WEEK
A former Golman Sachs partner is circulating a petition in his Upper East Side condo to remove the name Trump Palace because it impedes resales.
ny. curbed. com A man in Shandong, China dragged a French Dauphin 2 helicopter weighing 4.97 tonnes 10m by a rope attached to his testicles.
thestar. com. my Italian doctors are warning consumers of herbal tea with St. John’s Wart after it appeared to cause psychosis in a 25-year- old man.
livescience. com Artist Martin Roth created a lavender garden powered by fluorescent lights that glow brighter when President Trump or his surrogates tweet or are retweeted.
theartnewspaper.com Stefan Kasper, ten millionth visitor to Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum, won a dinner for one and an overnight stay in the gallery under Rembrandt’s The Night Watch.
theartnewspaper.com The Oxford English Dictionary has added the noun “stan” defined as an overzealous or obsessive fan from Eminem’s song from 2000.
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Brent Bambury’s Day 6, a showcase for stories like these, airs Saturdays at 10 a. m. ( 10: 30 a. m. NT) on CBC Radio One. Full podcasts at cbc. ca/day6.