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Post by BillG on Mar 14, 2022 5:30:28 GMT -5
Who knew??? March 14th is "National Potato Chip Day".
 
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Post by johnmori on Mar 14, 2022 7:43:40 GMT -5
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March 14, 1995
Norman Thagard becomes the first American astronaut to ride to space on board a Russian launch vehicle.
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Post by soutxed on Mar 14, 2022 9:45:42 GMT -5
March 14, 1964, a jury in Dallas found Jack Ruby guilty of murdering Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin of President John F. Kennedy, and sentenced him to death. (Both the conviction and death sentence were overturned, but Ruby died before he could be retried.)
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Post by sandipaws on Mar 14, 2022 12:04:25 GMT -5
Who Knew???
 National Pi Day on March 14th recognizes the mathematical constant π.
Also known as pi, the first three and most recognized digits are 3.14.
The day is celebrated by pi enthusiasts and pie lovers alike!
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Post by esty on Mar 14, 2022 16:13:29 GMT -5
Who knew? One little pest has an especially iron stomach!In nature, the otherwise despised termite has a helpful stomach because it digests cellulose - no easy task. Even large animals such as cows and goats have difficulty stomaching the substance. Those animals have to chew even grass for long periods of time until the cellulose can be digested. Now if termites would stick to just breaking down decaying trees and dying plants, that would be great!On a MUCH nicer digestion note...it's PI day (3.14)!! Hope you have your favorite! ..mmmm...
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**Graph of what pie is served at Thanksgiving.
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Post by MidnightSun on Mar 15, 2022 0:12:14 GMT -5
It Takes a Lot of Bees to Make Honey. "Busy as a bee" is a saying for a reason — colonies of bees work tirelessly to convert nectar into honey to eat when the flowers aren't blooming. However, each bee certainly can't do it alone. An individual bee will only make about one-twelfth of a teaspoon of honey in its entire lifetime. Luckily, a single colony usually contains between 20,000 and 60,000 bees and honey is a very high-energy food. It contains natural preservatives, meaning that honey is one of the very few foods that, if stored properly, will never go bad.
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Post by BillG on Mar 15, 2022 5:50:16 GMT -5
Who knew??? March 15th is "National Equal Pay Day". National Equal Pay Day brings awareness to pay discrepancies between women and men for the same work. The day represents how far into the year a woman works to earn as much as a man doing the same job.
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Post by johnmori on Mar 15, 2022 6:19:26 GMT -5
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March 15, 1927
The first Women's Boat Race between the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge takes place on The Isis in Oxford.
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Post by soutxed on Mar 15, 2022 8:11:20 GMT -5
March 15, 44 B.C., Roman dictator Julius Caesar was assassinated by a group of nobles that included Brutus and Cassius.
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Post by sandipaws on Mar 15, 2022 11:18:17 GMT -5
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 On March 15th, National Kansas Day recognizes The Sunflower State.
Magnificent herds of bison, elk, mule deer, and antelope roamed the vast open plains populated by Cherokee, Osage, Pawnee, and many other tribes.
The region became a part of the United States with the Louisiana Purchase in 1803.
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Post by MidnightSun on Mar 15, 2022 23:26:41 GMT -5
Albert Einstein Co-Invented the Refrigerator. Although the very first refrigerators were manufactured by General Electric in 1911, the coolants they used to keep the insides frosty were very toxic. In fact, leaking refrigerator coolant killed a sleeping family in Berlin in the 1920s. None other than Albert Einstein read about this tragedy in the paper and set about devising a solution. Together with his former student Leo Szilard, he created a refrigerator design with no moving parts, so there were no seals with the potential to leak. Though their design was abandoned in the 1950s for newer technological developments, Stanford scientists are revisiting it today as a way to bring refrigeration to areas without electricity.
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Post by johnmori on Mar 16, 2022 4:18:38 GMT -5
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March 16, 1966
Launch of Gemini 8 with astronauts Neil Armstrong and David Scott. It would perform the first docking of two spacecraft in orbit.
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Post by BillG on Mar 16, 2022 7:24:04 GMT -5
Who knew??? March 16th is "National Panda Day".
 
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Post by sandipaws on Mar 16, 2022 9:59:27 GMT -5
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March 16th recognizes National Freedom of Information Day annually during Sunshine Week.
It also commemorates the birthday of President James Madison.
Madison earned the name the Father of the Constitution and was the foremost advocate for openness in government.
Additionally, historians hail Madison as instrumental in drafting the United States Constitution and the leading advocate and author of the Bill of Rights.
Madison held individual rights and freedom of information in high importance.
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Post by MidnightSun on Mar 16, 2022 23:05:09 GMT -5
Trailers Used to Run After the Movie. Those short previews of coming attractions have been around since 1913, but they used to play after the feature film, hence the name "trailer." However, it was obviously harder to make the audience hang around after the movie had ended, so they were shifted to the beginning, but the name stuck. Incidentally, that deep male voice you probably think of when you think of movie trailers belonged to Don LaFontaine, who voiced more than 5,000 movie trailers before his death in 2008.
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