A quart of oil added in every county: A Michigan couple completed a quest to visit all 3,108 counties in the Lower 48 with a trip to Nantucket this week. They made the trip in the same vehicle — a 1999 Dodge Intrepid with more than 540,000 miles.
The project took nine years, but would have taken just 4½ years had the couple listened to friends who advised them to buy a Toyota Corolla for the journey.
Pirates keep on ticking: Apple’s new smartwatch won’t hit the market for another month, but ever-diligent Chinese counterfeiters already have rushed out cheap copycat gadgets.
The watches are said to be just like the Apple devices — except for that tiny knob on the side that you have to remember to wind every morning to keep the things running.
Don’t know much about history: On this day in 1781, the planet Uranus was discovered by Sir William Herschel.
Also on this day in 1781, Sir William’s son, John, became the first adolescent boy to snicker when somebody said “Uranus.”
— Mark Carlson, Herald staff
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