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Toilet Timer: What Happened After $200,000 Mark Cuban Shark Tank Deal On Season 12 of Adam Stephey and Katie Stephey of Katamco pitch their gag gift Toilet Timer. It’s a 5-minute sand timer designed for “poo-crastinators” who are accused of wasting too much time in the bathroom. [Related:  They had the good fortune of pitching in front of billionaire Mark Cuban who has seen success with his . They accepted Cuban’s offer: $200,000 for 25 percent. Since then the product has continually received rave reviews on Amazon, nearly 5,000 of them! And most of them by a big margin are five...

| photo courtesy of ABC Kirkwood High School graduate Adam Stephey used to clean park bathrooms for a summer job. Little did he know that, two decades down the line, his career would still be focused on toilets — in a whole different way. Recently featured on ABC’s entrepreneurial reality show “Shark Tank,” Stephey and his wife, Katie, are the creators of the Toilet Timer, a five-minute sand timer designed to keep people mindful of the time they spend in the restroom. Unlike a traditional hourglass sand timer, which takes several minutes to reset, the Toilet Timer complete...

Ryan Denham / WGLT 2020 was a blur. So many important things happened in the Bloomington-Normal community, from COVID-19 to racial justice protests to the recession. Oh, and a presidential election. Here is a look at the 10 most-read stories from 2020 on WGLT.org. Danielle Kater, a 30-year-old from Bloomington, was the youngest person we lost to COVID this year. Her family bravely stepped forward to tell their story, starting with this heartbreaking interview with WGLT’s Dana Vollmer. Kater’s family later spoke at one of Gov. JB Pritzker’s daily briefings about the importance of ta...