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Post by BillG on Mar 23, 2024 6:41:50 GMT -5
Who Knew??? March 23RD is "National Chip And Dip Day"!
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Post by soutxed on Mar 23, 2024 9:29:30 GMT -5
March 23, 1775 Patrick Henry proclaims "Give me liberty or give me death" in speech in favor of Virginian troops joining US Revolutionary war.
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Post by johnmori on Mar 23, 2024 9:47:09 GMT -5
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March 23, 1965 NASA launches Gemini 3, the United States' first two-man space flight (crew: Gus Grissom and John Young).
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Post by sandipaws on Mar 23, 2024 23:51:13 GMT -5
Who Knew??? Celebrate all your favorite cocktails on March 24th. National Cocktail Day ushers in all the best ways to savor a beverage at the end of a long workday.
It's probably no surprise that nearly every month on the calendar celebrates a cocktail. The only exception is April, and since it's National Alcohol Awareness Month, it makes sense to take that month off.
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Post by MidnightSun on Mar 24, 2024 3:42:55 GMT -5
The coldest temperature ever recorded was -144 degrees Fahrenheit. You might think you're accustomed to frigid air and blustery winds, but the average winter day has nothing on the coldest day ever recorded, which was -144 degrees Fahrenheit. The temperature was recorded in Antarctica during a span of research between 2004 and 2016. Just a few breaths of air at that temperature would induce hemorrhaging in your lungs and kill you. Who knew?
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Post by soutxed on Mar 24, 2024 7:41:32 GMT -5
March 24, 2020 China's Hubei province, the original center of the COVID-19 outbreak eases restrictions on travel after a nearly two-month lockdown.
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Post by johnmori on Mar 24, 2024 9:25:39 GMT -5
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March 24, 1989 In Prince William Sound in Alaska, the Exxon Valdez spills 240,000 barrels (38,000 m3) of crude oil after running aground
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Post by MidnightSun on Mar 25, 2024 0:09:21 GMT -5
If you die alone in the Netherlands, someone will write you a poem and recite it at your funeral. For those lonely folk who pass away with no next of kin and no one to claim them at death, there will be at least one person at their funeral: a poet. In response to these so-called "lonely funerals," the country implemented the ritual of lonely funeral poems, in which poets research the deceased, write a poem in their honor, and recite it at the funeral. What started as a small project in Amsterdam has now grown into a country-wide competition. Who knew?
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Post by BillG on Mar 25, 2024 7:13:02 GMT -5
Who Knew??? March 25TH is "National Medal of Honor Day"!
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Post by soutxed on Mar 25, 2024 7:54:54 GMT -5
March 25, 1807, British Empire ends its slave trade. Championed by religious groups and slavery abolitionist William Wilberforce, the Slave Trade Act becomes law in Great Britain and its colonies, ending the trading of slaves throughout the empire. It will be another 26 years before slavery itself will be abolished in the United Kingdom.
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Post by johnmori on Mar 25, 2024 9:05:25 GMT -5
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March 25, 1979 The first fully functional Space Shuttle orbiter, Columbia, is delivered to the John F. Kennedy Space Center to be prepared for its first launch.
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Post by MidnightSun on Mar 26, 2024 0:12:35 GMT -5
In the 16th century, poets exchanged rap battle-like stylized insults in an act called "flyting." The word "flyting" comes from the Old English word for "quarrel." Something like today's freestyle rap battles, the purpose of flyting was to craft poetic insults so devastating to your competitor that they'd be too insulted to muster a comeback. One recorded exchange is known as The Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedie, in which Kennedie tells Dunbar, "You look like the crows already ate your cheeks; Renounce, rebel, your rhymes and sorry shrieks." What a burn. Who knew?
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Post by BillG on Mar 26, 2024 5:31:19 GMT -5
Who Knew??? March 26TH is "National Spinach Day"!
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Post by johnmori on Mar 26, 2024 9:43:57 GMT -5
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March 26, 1979 Anwar al-Sadat, Menachem Begin and Jimmy Carter sign the Egypt–Israel peace treaty in Washington, D.C.
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Post by MidnightSun on Mar 27, 2024 1:41:32 GMT -5
Astronaut Alan Shepard hit two golf balls on the moon's surface. On the Apollo 14 space mission in 1971, Alan Shepard became the first and only person to play golf somewhere other than Earth. He attached a six-iron head (which he'd smuggled onboard in a sock) to a piece of rock-collecting equipment and hit two golf balls while on the moon's surface, hitting his second shot further than 200 yards. Who knew?
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