1662: "Ames Laboratory"

1665: "Grizz Chapman"

Interesting Things with JC #1665: "Grizz Chapman" – Grizz was working security when a friendship with Tracy Morgan led to a 30 Rock audition, and the nearly seven-foot bouncer became one of the calmest, warmest faces on TV while fighting kidney disease off-camera. He pushed past the roles Hollywood expected from a man his size.

1664: "Rob Base"

Interesting Things with JC #1664: "Rob Base" – Rob Base passed away four days after his 59th birthday, but the 1988 record he made with DJ E-Z Rock still moves crowds nearly four decades later; “It Takes Two” climbed the charts, then kept showing up at weddings, cookouts, games, and parties long after the charts moved on.

1663: "Kyle Busch"

Interesting Things with JC #1663: "Kyle Busch" – Kyle Busch is steering a go-kart while his father works the throttle because his feet cannot reach the pedals, and the Las Vegas kid who built racetracks from crushed soda cans grows into one of the most successful drivers in NASCAR history.

1662: "Ames Laboratory"

Interesting Things with JC #1662: "Ames Laboratory" – Frank Spedding’s team in Ames, Iowa turned rare uranium metal into wartime production material, using the Ames Process to supply purified uranium for the Manhattan Project while the better-known atomic sites depended on that chemistry.

1661: "The Earth's Core is Younger than its Surface"

Interesting Things with JC #1661: "The Earth's Core is Younger than its Surface" – A clock at Earth’s core runs slightly slower than a clock on the surface, and over 4.5 billion years that tiny relativity effect leaves the center of the planet about two and a half years younger than the ground above it.