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Sam and Jon were out cutting wood when Jon cut his own arm off. Sam remained calm, wrapped the arm in a plastic bag, then took the arm and Jon to a surgeon. "You are in luck," said the surgeon. "I am an expert in reattaching limbs." "Come back in 4 hours when I've completed the operation." 

     So Sam returned in 4 hours. And the surgeon said, "I did it faster than I expected. Jon is down at the pub." 

     Sam rushed down to the pub and was amazed to see Jon playing darts. A few weeks later, Sam and Jon were cutting wood again when Jon accidentally cut off his leg. Sam put the leg in a plastic bag and took the leg and John back to the same surgeon. "Legs are harder," said the surgeon. "But, I'll see what I can do. Come back in 6 hours." 

     Sam returned in 6 hours, and the surgeon said, "I finished early. Jon's playing football. Sam went to the field and to his surprise found Jon kicking 50 yard torpedoes. 

     A few weeks later, Sam and John were cutting wood again when Jon accidentally cut off his own head. Sam put the head in a plastic bag, then took it and the rest of Jon to the surgeon, confident that the skillful surgeon would do the job. "Gee, heads are really difficult to reattach." the surgeon muttered. "But I'll see what I can do. Come on back in 12 hours." 

     Sam returned in 12 hours. "How did it go, Doc?" he asked. 

     "I'm sorry. John died," the surgeon replied. "He suffocated in the plastic bag."

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🌵1520 - Spanish conquistadors are expelled from Tenochtitlan following an Aztec revolt against their rule under Hernán Cortés during "La Noche Triste" (the Night of Sadness). Many soldiers drown in the escape, and Aztec emperor Moctezuma II dies in the struggle.

1898 - Winton Motor Carriage Company publishes the first known automobile ad in Scientific American using the headline “dispense with a horse.”

1905 - The mutinous battleship Potemkin arrives in Odessa in the Russian Empire, where sailors take the bodies of dead crewmen ashore and join civilians in revolutionary actions during the 1905 Revolution.

1908 - A giant fireball, most likely caused by the air burst of a large meteoroid or comet, flattens 80 million trees near the Stony Tunguska River in Yeniseysk Governorate, Russia, in the largest impact event in recorded history.

1934 - Adolf Hitler stages a bloody purge of the Nazi party in the "Night of the Long Knives”.

1997 - British lease on the New Territories in Hong Kong expires, established by the Second Convention of Peking.

1966: Can I have your ear?? Former boxing champ Mike Tyson is having a birthday today.

National Meteor Watch Day - And one of the best places to watch meteors is in Why!! So, come on down!!