Jim Loboy

Ohio

Meteorologist and Reporter at WYTV-TV (Youngstown, OH)

Just a small town guy trying to do some good.

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Strange and rare health conditions

1 week ago | wytv.com | Jim Loboy

(WYTV) – Here are strange diseases and sicknesses that almost no one gets, but they’re still on the books. Foreign Accent Syndrome: You wake up one day speaking with an accent from a country you’ve never visited. It may come from a stroke. There are around 100 cases in medical history, and the new accent can be temporary or permanent. Sleeping Beauty Syndrome: it’s no fairy tale.
All the bells and whistles phrase explained

2 weeks ago | wytv.com | Jim Loboy

(WYTV)- Did your new car come with all the bells and whistles? What are these bells and whistles? Before we had sirens and public address systems, we rang bells and blew whistles to get the public’s attention in open markets or for a circus parade. It was a common expression all the way back to the 18th century, but the meaning evolved to mean we are now expecting a new technological development, new features, new gadgets, new bells and whistles. Did you sleep tight last night?
New Jersey law says you can’t pump your own gas

2 weeks ago | wytv.com | Jim Loboy

(WYTV)- New Jersey law says you can’t pump your own gas. You cannot pump your own gasoline in New Jersey; someone from the gas station will do it for you, and that’s the only state in the union that has this law. The ban on self-serve gas in New Jersey began in 1949 with a law saying self-pumps were not safe. Drivers could start fires, but there was another reason. A journalist named Paul Mulshine looked into this and reported the story in 2019.
The reason for 88 keys on a piano

2 weeks ago | wytv.com | Jim Loboy

(WYTV)- Why are there 88 keys on a piano? Why not 44, or 200? Let’s go back to the days before the piano, when composers wrote for the harpsichord, which has just 60 keys, and each key is its own note, its own sound. Around 1700, a musical technician named Bartolommeo Cristofori decided it was time to update the harpsichord, and he invented the piano, with more keys. The more keys, the broader the sound, the greater the range.
Jobs that went obsolete

2 weeks ago | wytv.com | Jim Loboy

(WYTV) — Let’s go back 70 years; it’s 1955 instead of 2025. We had no clue as to how innovation was going to make some very common jobs almost obsolete. We depended so much on the telephone switchboard operator, all 342,000 of them to connect our calls, but automated dialing systems made them obsolete. About 43,000 are still on the job, mostly in the medical field and the travel industry. Where did the milkman go?
History of the Tooth Fairy

2 weeks ago | wytv.com | Jim Loboy

(WYTV)- How did this tale of a tooth fairy take off? A mythical creature comes to your child’s bed and replaces a tooth beneath a pillow with cash. In the 13th century, a Scandinavian tradition called for mom and dad to give kids a small fee for their first lost tooth since they were a symbol of good luck. In 1908, a Chicago Tribune article suggested parents tell their kids about a Tooth Fairy who leaves five cents per tooth to make the kids more comfortable about losing them.
Find out why some pickles are crinkle-cut

3 weeks ago | wytv.com | Jim Loboy

(WYTV)- Find out why some pickles are crinkled. Some pickle slices are flat, and some have ridges. Let’s see what food historians and pickle experts have to say about that. Almost every culture around the world has its own pickles. Restaurants offered pickles alongside sandwiches for a long time, but around the turn of the 20th century, some delis began putting thin slices of pickles on the sandwiches themselves. Pickles on sandwiches really took off with the rise of fast food such as McDonald’s.
All mammals yawn, but here’s how it differs among species

3 weeks ago | wytv.com | Jim Loboy

(WYTV) – Why do we yawn, and do all animals yawn? We’ve discovered that the larger the brain, the longer you yawn. Yawning helps cool the brain. It keeps you alert and helps your thinking. Mammals and birds yawn, and just like humans, the bigger their brains the longer they yawn. Humans have yawns lasting around six seconds, while mice yawn for one or two seconds. Birds with large brains, such as owls, yawn longer than smaller birds, such as sparrows.
Oranges, nature’s superfood

3 weeks ago | wytv.com | Jim Loboy

(WYTV) — Oranges are a popular snack, packed with vitamin C, which boosts your immune system; oranges are good for your skin. They can help lower cholesterol. Sunshine in every bite. One medium orange provides more than a hundred percent of the vitamin C your body needs every day. They are high in fiber and low in calories. Oranges are about 86% water, so they can help keep you hydrated. We believe the first oranges came from Southeast Asia, parts of India, Vietnam and southern China.
Diane Berish Douce takes last walk through Trumbull Medical Center in Warren, Ohio with 33 WYTV mug

3 weeks ago | wytv.com | Jim Loboy

by: Jim Loboy Posted: Mar 31, 2025 / 07:19 AM EDT Updated: Mar 31, 2025 / 07:19 AM EDT WARREN, Ohio (WYTV) — With all the shake-ups to the area hospitals, our hearts go out to those impacted. Diane Berish Douce sent WYTV a video, keeping her sense of humor. “Probably my last walk down this hallway because they closed surgery last night. Pretty sad,” Berish Douce said.