• The Washington Post reported on July 14 that Brazil's president, Jair Bolsonaro, is expected to be under observation at the Armed Forces Hospital in Brasilia for a few days while doctors try to determine the cause behind his chronic hiccups.
Bolsonaro has been hiccupping for more than 10 days, even at public events.
The leader is no stranger to weird health scares: While he suffered from COVID-19 last year, he was bitten by a large emu-like bird.
For his part, he thinks the hiccups may be related to medicines he was taking after dental implant surgery. [The Washington Post, 7/14/2021]
• David Olson, 33, was demolishing the back steps outside his home in Norton Shores, Michigan, on July 1 when he rolled a strike, so to speak: Olson found at least 160 bowling balls buried in the sand under the home.
Upon seeing the first ball, he thought, "Maybe there were just a couple in there just to fill in. The deeper I got into it, the more I realized it was just basically an entire gridwork of them," he told the Detroit Free Press.
Olson said many of the balls are in bad condition, and they all had spiral grooves cut into them.
Former employees of a Brunswick plant nearby got in touch with him, explaining that workers used to take scrapped balls to use as an alternative to gravel or sand.
Olson donated eight balls for a local church to use in a bowling ball cannon at a pig roast; his stepfather plans to use some as legs for custom furniture. [Detroit Free Press, 7/12/2021]