
HUMAN LIGHTNING ROD?! 🤯 He Survived 7 Strikes!
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"Have YOU heard that there's a man who literally became a human lightning magnet? Roy Sullivan got struck by lightning SEVEN different times - and somehow lived to tell the tale!
STAY TUNED!"
SEGMENT 1: FEATURE OF THE DAY - THE HUMAN LIGHTNING ROD (June 5)
Roy Sullivan - the unluckiest lucky man who ever lived! This Virginia park ranger holds the most shocking world record you've never heard of: surviving SEVEN lightning strikes between 1942 and 1977.
[Source: Guinness World Records, Shenandoah National Park Archives]
SEGMENT 2: NATIONAL DAY CELEBRATION (June 3)
June 3rd is National Egg Day!
[Source: NationalDayCalendar.com, National Geographic]
SEGMENT 3: ON THIS DAY (June 6)
On June 6, 1844, the YMCA was founded in London by a 22-year-old fabric store worker named George Williams.
[Source: OnThisDay.com, YMCA Historical Archives]
SEGMENT 4: TODAY I FOUND OUT (June 4)
June 4, 1896 - the day Henry Ford learned an important lesson about measuring twice and building once!
[Source: TodayIFoundOut.com, Henry Ford Museum archives]
SEGMENT 5: BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION (June 2)
June 2nd, 1875 - the day Alexander Graham Bell invented something that would eventually let your mom call you three times a day to ask if you're eating enough vegetables! That's right, the telephone got its patent on this day.
[Source: Alexander Graham Bell Association, Smithsonian Institution]
SEGMENT 6: WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY (June 5)
June 5th is World Environment Day, and I've got a nature fact that sounds like something out of a fantasy novel but is 100% real science! Ready for this? Trees can actually talk to each other!
[Source: University of British Columbia Forest Sciences, Nature journal]
⏰ Timestamps:
00:00 HUMAN LIGHTNING ROD
01:38 National Egg Day
02:43 YMCA was founded
03:57 Henry Ford invented drive-thru
05:08 Alexander Graham Bell patent
06:14 World Environment Day
Watch, Learn and Enjoy!
Troy W. Hudson
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Troy W. Hudson is an American Voice Over Artist, Character Voice Actor, Video Host and Storyteller CELEBRATING 40+ years of professional experience in multimedia production. I deliver high quality professional voice overs and on camera presentations. I voice and produce commercials, narrations, elearning, explainers, children's storytelling, telephony and a lot more. I've produced over 80 audiobooks along with a wide range of character voices for games, escape rooms and phone messages. 💚 🎤