This made the rounds just after the holidays, but you might have missed it:  The site “Good News Network” has a story about a WILD coincidence.  A lady from Pennsylvania came across some old pen pal letters from high school . . . and realized the girl she exchanged letters with is now her OB-GYN. Megan Lewis and Suzanne Pugh were pen pals in the ’90s.  Suzanne’s maiden name was Koziol, so that’s why…

Two recent grads at Penn invented a special hat for premature babies that protects their hearing.  It’s a beanie that goes over their ears and filters out frequencies higher than 500 hertz. Too many hospital sounds like beeping can have lasting effects. There’s also a cool feature that lets hospital staff play prerecorded messages from the baby’s parents.

A teacher in Michigan is now a Guinness World Record holder.  90-year-old Beverly Hannett-Price teaches English at Detroit Country Day School, just outside the city.  They held a surprise assembly for her on Monday. She broke the record for “longest career as a language teacher.”  She started in 1958, over 67 years ago.  Actor Courtney B. Vance was a student and showed up.  She also taught Robin Williams and former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer.