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Post by MidnightSun on Apr 6, 2022 23:43:25 GMT -5
The Remote Control Predates the Television. Though the first electric television came into being in 1927, the remote control is almost three decades older. Nikola Tesla invented a "teleautomaton" that could control certain mechanical devices at a distance with radio waves and debuted it in 1898 with a remote-controlled boat. Although the technology didn't catch on at the time, the laziness brought about by the invention of television changed that. The first TV remote, marketed as the "Lazy Bones," was linked to the TV set by a long wire, but so many people tripped over it that the wireless remote control, made in 1956, was an even bigger hit.
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Post by johnmori on Apr 7, 2022 4:53:20 GMT -5
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April 7, 1933
Prohibition in the United States is repealed for beer of no more than 3.2% alcohol by weight, eight months before the ratification of the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution. (Now celebrated as National Beer Day in the United States.)
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Post by BillG on Apr 7, 2022 6:35:24 GMT -5
Who Knew??? April 7th is "National Beer Day".
 
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Post by soutxed on Apr 7, 2022 8:09:01 GMT -5
April 7, 1922, the Teapot Dome scandal had its beginnings as Interior Secretary Albert B. Fall signed a secret deal to lease U.S. Navy petroleum reserves in Wyoming and California to his friends, oilmen Harry F. Sinclair and Edward L. Doheny, in exchange for cash gifts.
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Post by MidnightSun on Apr 7, 2022 21:42:15 GMT -5
All Standard CDs are 74 Minutes Long. While they've been largely replaced by digital downloads for new music, you've surely still got a few CDs hanging around your house. Compact discs were the first widely-available digital recordings of music and were produced jointly by the Phillips and Sony corporations working together in the early 1980s. The first CDs were supposed to be 11.5 cm in diameter, but Sony insisted that they be 12 cm, large enough to hold 74 minutes of music. Supposedly, Sony's vice president's wife was a huge fan of Beethoven, so the demand was based on the fact that the legendary Ninth Symphony is exactly 74 minutes long.
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Post by BillG on Apr 8, 2022 3:41:37 GMT -5
Who Knew??? April 8th is "National Zoo Lovers Day".
 
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Post by johnmori on Apr 8, 2022 5:13:52 GMT -5
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April 8, 1959
A team of computer manufacturers, users, and university people led by Grace Hopper meets to discuss the creation of a new programming language that would be called COBOL.
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Post by soutxed on Apr 8, 2022 8:10:28 GMT -5
April 8, 1974, Hank Aaron of the Atlanta Braves hit his 715th career home run in a game against the Los Angeles Dodgers, breaking Babe Ruth’s record.
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Post by sandipaws on Apr 8, 2022 17:34:22 GMT -5
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Each year on April 8th, National Empanada Day recognizes a delicious pastry that comes in several different forms. The name empanada comes from the Galician, Portuguese and Spanish verb em pandar, meaning to wrap or coat in bread.
Empanadas are made by folding the dough or bread around a seasoned stuffing. The stuffed dough is then baked or fried. Very much like hand pies, these delicious pastries offer a variety of choices. You can make your empanadas with meat, cheese, vegetables or fruit fillings. However, they may be made with other ingredients, too.
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Post by MidnightSun on Apr 8, 2022 23:14:53 GMT -5
There's Less Gold Than You Think. We all know gold is valuable because it's rare. It's hard to get an exact value for how much gold we've mined in all of human history, but some estimates put it at 10 billion ounces—or a cube about a third of the size of the Washington Monument. And we only mine the equivalent of a 14-foot cube—about the size of a single room—of new gold each year. Ironically, we've only mined about 1 percent of the gold in the Earth… because the rest is in the planet's molten core.
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Post by BillG on Apr 9, 2022 7:06:21 GMT -5
Who Knew??? April 9th is "National Unicorn Day".
 
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Post by johnmori on Apr 9, 2022 8:07:14 GMT -5
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April 9, 1959
Project Mercury: NASA announces the selection of the United States' first seven astronauts, whom the news media quickly dub the "Mercury Seven".
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Post by soutxed on Apr 9, 2022 8:28:29 GMT -5
April 9, 1967, the first Boeing 737 takes off on its maiden flight. The short-to-medium range plane is the best-selling airplane in history.
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Post by sandipaws on Apr 9, 2022 12:11:14 GMT -5
Who Knew??? National Former Prisoner of War Recognition Day on April 9th honors the courageous men and women who have endured brutal treatment at the hands of their captors.
As a result, they’ve also suffered separation from family and displayed incredible endurance and faith during their captivity.
God bless our veterans!
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Post by MidnightSun on Apr 10, 2022 2:06:22 GMT -5
Play-Doh Was Originally a Wallpaper Cleaner. In the grand tradition of toys that were invented by mistake, the clay-like substance we now know as Play-Doh was first sold for the purpose of lifting soot off of wallpaper. At the time, it only came in an off-white color, but when it was sold as a toy, it was produced in red, blue, and yellow. Today, it's available in over 50 colors, and the current owner Hasbro has trademarked that signature Play-Doh scent you always had on your fingers as a child.
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