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Thursday, April 25
While we're all watching the DNC Convention, I thought I'd point out this utterly useless but fascinating fact: according to Wikipedia, Rahm Emanuel (Dem Congressman for much of the North Side) has "lost part of his right middle finger to a meat slicer while an employee at Arby's as a teenager." It's hard for me to imagine him fixing a Beef & Cheddar, but stranger things have happened.