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If you have never heard of Eugene Polley, you are not alone, but you honor him every time you turn on your TV and channel surf to your heart's content. Polley died on Sunday at the age of 96 and he invented the first wireless TV remote in 1955.

First the NFL, now the NBA. The difference being the NFL resolved their issues and beyond missing a couple of pre-season games, the season started as scheduled. The NBA is another story and yesterday the player's union rejected the league's latest proposal making it all but certain, this season is done.

It's Halloween and here in the Tri-State people love haunted hayrides and corn mazes in fact, we have several great corn mazes right here. The other day, a family in Massachusetts was enjoying a corn maze and got disoriented (which is easy to do), got lost and became so panicked, they called 911.

It is a fact and confirmed by Twitter that people generally wake up in a good mood and are happiest on weekends. How do you get that from Twitter? Scientists at Cornell University apparently had nothing better to do so, they turned to Twitter to get a glimpse of real-time unfiltered human behavior and they found a pretty consistent pattern.

It was not intended, but when the federal government announced it would be phasing out the incandescnet light bulb, it looked like it was curtains for one of the classic toys of all time, the Easy Bake Oven. Hasbro, the manufacturer decided to use the opportunity for a makeover to give the toy a brand new look.

It remains one of the biggest and most baffling mysteries in U.S. history, whatever happened to the guy who jumped from a Northwest Orient 727 over the Pacific Northwest with $200,000 in cash on November 24, 1971?