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Post by MidnightSun on Jun 19, 2021 23:52:51 GMT -5
The patient in the game Operation has a name. Now you'll be able to tell everyone that the incision-filled patient you are about to perform surgery on goes by the name Cavity Sam. Especially when the question is asked during Trivial Pursuit.
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Post by BillG on Jun 20, 2021 1:44:04 GMT -5
Who Knew??? On June 20th, 1963 a "Hot Line" was established between the US and the Soviet Union. To lessen the threat of an accidental nuclear war, the United States and the Soviet Union agree to establish a "hot line" communication system between the two nations.
 
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Post by johnmori on Jun 20, 2021 7:36:23 GMT -5
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June 20, 1945
The United States Secretary of State approves the transfer of Wernher von Braun and his team of Nazi rocket scientists to the U.S. under Operation Paperclip.
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Post by soutxed on Jun 20, 2021 8:30:37 GMT -5
June 20, 1967, boxer Muhammad Ali was convicted in Houston of violating Selective Service laws by refusing to be drafted and was sentenced to five years in prison. (Ali’s conviction was ultimately overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court). Who knew?
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Post by sandipaws on Jun 20, 2021 21:07:14 GMT -5
Who Knew??? National Daylight Appreciation Day each year on June 21st recognizes the summer solstice (the longest day of daylight in the northern hemisphere) and encourages people to celebrate the many benefits of the sun.
The day also offers an opportunity to learn more about the importance of daylighting. Daylighting is using skylights, windows, and other architectural openings to naturally light interior spaces. Doing so helps not only to reduce energy consumption but may also have health benefits.
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Post by MidnightSun on Jun 20, 2021 22:49:00 GMT -5
Shakespeare's plays feature the word "love" about 10 times more than the word "hate." Of course, William Shakespeare wrote about both love and hate. However, he focused much more on the former than on the latter. In his plays alone, he used the word "love" 1,640 times and the word "hate" 163 times. And when it comes to Shakespeare's complete works, "love" appears a total of 2,209 times, according to Open Source Shakespeare.
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Post by johnmori on Jun 21, 2021 5:31:59 GMT -5
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June 21, 1986
1985 Heisman Trophy winner Bo Jackson, signs 3-year contract to play baseball with the Kansas City Royals
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Post by soutxed on Jun 21, 2021 7:56:41 GMT -5
June 21, 1964, civil rights workers Michael H. Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James E. Chaney were slain in Philadelphia, Mississippi; their bodies were found buried in an earthen dam six weeks later. (Forty-one years later on this date in 2005, Edgar Ray Killen, an 80-year-old former Ku Klux Klansman, was found guilty of manslaughter; he was sentenced to 60 years in prison, where he died in January 2018.) Who knew? Who remembers?
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Post by BillG on Jun 21, 2021 9:19:00 GMT -5
Who Knew??? On June 21st, 1945, during WWII, following a long and bloody battle which started on April 1st, US troops take control of the Japanese island of Okinawa.
 
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Post by sandipaws on Jun 21, 2021 23:19:39 GMT -5
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On June 23rd, join the celebration born in the birthplace of the American Automobile and Motown. National Detroit-Style Pizza Day recognizes the square-cut pizza style first served at Buddy’s Pizza in 1946 in the city that also gave us Madonna, the Mustang, and the first paved road. And Detroit-Style Pizza is arguably Detroit’s greatest contribution!
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Post by MidnightSun on Jun 22, 2021 0:20:50 GMT -5
The space between your eyebrows is called the glabella. You know that space between your eyebrows that women feel the need for a good plucking from time to time? Of course you do. But do you know what it's called? Well, that's your glabella.
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Post by johnmori on Jun 22, 2021 5:35:54 GMT -5
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June 22, 1942
The Pledge of Allegiance is formally adopted by US Congress.
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Post by BillG on Jun 22, 2021 7:38:30 GMT -5
Who Knew??? June 22 is "National Chocolate Eclair Day".
 
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Post by soutxed on Jun 22, 2021 7:59:21 GMT -5
1977, John N. Mitchell became the first former U.S. Attorney General to go to prison as he began serving a sentence for his role in the Watergate cover-up. (He was released 19 months later.)
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Post by MidnightSun on Jun 22, 2021 22:08:41 GMT -5
There was a flying dinosaur the size of a giraffe. The pterosaurs compare in size to your average giraffe and had a wingspan of 35 feet and could fly for thousands of miles, according to National Geographic. "Instead of taking off with their legs alone, like birds, pterosaurs probably took off using all four of their limbs," paleontologist Michael Habib told The Telegraph. He says that using their strong arms as "the main engines for launching instead of their legs may explain how pterosaurs became so much larger than any other flying animals known." Pterosaurs existed during most of the Mesozoic: from the late Triassic to the end of the Cretaceous (228 to 66 million years ago ). Pterosaurs are the earliest vertebrates known to have evolved powered flight.
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