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Podcast: Cool Weird Awesome with Brady Carlson
Episode: Today Is Ed Balls Day, To Which We Say “Ed Balls”
Description: Today in 2011, UK politician Ed Balls sent a tweet that just said "Ed Balls." He was trying to search for his name, not post it, but the inadvertent self-rep turned into a meme and a wonderfully weird annual tradition. Plus: for Arbor Day, the story of a guy from Quebec who set the world record for most trees planted in a single day. (It's a lot.)
Ed Balls Day Is Upon Us! Here Are the 8 Strangest Online Political Gaffes (Snopes)
Quebecer breaks Guinness world record, planting more than 23K trees in 24 hours (Globalnews.ca)