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Post by VanIsleRover on May 22, 2024 13:43:32 GMT -5
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22 May 1962, I met my future Husband.
22 May 1849
Future U.S. president Abraham Lincoln was granted a patent for a boat-lifting device; he was the only U.S. president to have a patent.
1972
Richard Nixon arrived in Moscow, the first visit by a U.S. president to the Soviet Union.
1960
One of the largest earthquakes on record struck the southern coast of Chile, killing about 5,700 people and creating seismic sea waves that caused death and destruction in distant Pacific coastal areas, notably Japan and Hawaii.
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Post by MidnightSun on May 23, 2024 2:29:44 GMT -5
Your mouth produces about one liter of saliva a day. You may find that your mouth gets a little dry when you're nervous. But on most days, you produce about one liter of saliva.
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Post by BillG on May 23, 2024 7:08:23 GMT -5
Who Knew??? May 23RD is "National Taffy Day"!
 
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Post by soutxed on May 23, 2024 7:58:29 GMT -5
On May 23, 1934, bank robbers Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker shot dead in a police ambush in Bienville Parish, Louisiana.
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Post by MidnightSun on May 23, 2024 23:36:55 GMT -5
Scientists found nearly 1,500 new bacteria species in belly buttons. When a team from North Carolina State University took a look at what was inside the belly buttons of 60 different people, they found a "rain forest" of microscopic life. In total, they identified 2,368 bacterial species, 1,458 of which may be new.
According to National Geographic, the belly button of "one science writer, for instance, apparently harbored a bacterium that had previously been found only in soil from Japan — where he has never been. Another [volunteer], who hadn't washed in several years, hosted two species of so-called extremophile bacteria that typically thrive in ice caps and thermal vents."
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Post by BillG on May 24, 2024 4:41:37 GMT -5
Who Knew??? May 24TH is "Aviation Maintenance Technician Day"!
 
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Post by soutxed on May 24, 2024 6:51:14 GMT -5
May 24, 2022, in Uvalde Texas, a gunman entered the elementary school and killed 19 students while law enforcement waited 77 minutes to enter the classroom and take down the shooter. Families just awarded $2 million by the city.
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Post by johnmori on May 24, 2024 9:21:55 GMT -5
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May 24, 1962
Project Mercury: American astronaut Scott Carpenter orbits the Earth three times in the Aurora 7 space capsule.
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Post by VanIsleRover on May 24, 2024 12:51:15 GMT -5
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24 May 1883
Opening of the Brooklyn Bridge
A brilliant feat of 19th-century engineering, the Brooklyn Bridge—spanning the East River from Brooklyn to Manhattan Island in New York City—opened this day in 1883, designed by civil engineer John Augustus Roebling.
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Post by sandipaws on May 24, 2024 15:32:48 GMT -5
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What more could you need than a cold drink for the official launch of summer?
Something to keep it cold, of course!
National Cooler Day, the Friday before Memorial Day, makes staying cool easy this summer.
As simple as the design of a cooler may seem, it wasn't until the 1950s that the first cooler or “portable icebox” made the scene.
In fact, the material needed to make coolers didn't even exist until 1944.
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Post by VanIsleRover on May 24, 2024 21:56:58 GMT -5
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24 May 1938
Carl Magee of Oklahoma was granted a U.S. patent for the first coin-controlled parking metre, which become ubiquitous on streets around the country.
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Post by VanIsleRover on May 24, 2024 23:20:13 GMT -5
Who Knew?? 25 May 1787 U.S. Constitutional Convention opened in Philadelphia www.britannica.com/on-this-day/May-25On this day in 1787, the Constitutional Convention opened in Philadelphia, where 55 state delegates, initially charged with amending the Articles of Confederation, later drafted the Constitution of the United States.  2011 The last episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show aired; the long-running TV program had helped make Winfrey one of the richest and most influential women in the United States. 1977 George Lucas's space opera film Star Wars (later known as Star Wars: Episode IV—New Hope) was released, launching one of the most successful and influential franchises in motion picture history. 1961 In a speech before Congress, U.S. President John F. Kennedy committed the United States to land a man on the Moon by the end of the decade; the goal was achieved with Apollo 11 in 1969. 1935 American baseball player Babe Ruth hit the 714th and last home run of his career; he retired later that year. American track-and-field standout Jesse Owens set three world records and equaled one other at a meet in Ann Arbor, Michigan. |
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Post by MidnightSun on May 25, 2024 2:31:29 GMT -5
Human bodies give off a tiny amount of light that glows. Being a human that glows sounds like something out of a superhero movie. But it turns out that all bodies emit a tiny amount of light. "The human body literally glimmers," wrote researchers in a 2009 study published in PLoS One. While it's pretty cool to think of our bodies shimmering like a diamond, the scientists also explained why we can't see the shiny sheen, writing, "The intensity of the light emitted by the body is 1,000 times lower than the sensitivity of our naked eyes."
According to The Guardian, this glow is "the result of highly reactive free radicals produced through cell respiration interacting with free-floating lipids and proteins. The 'excited' molecules that result can react with chemicals called fluorophores to emit photons."
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Post by johnmori on May 25, 2024 7:58:30 GMT -5
Who knew???
May 25, 1951
NY Giant Willie Mays 1st major league game (goes 0 for 5)
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Post by BillG on May 25, 2024 10:56:20 GMT -5
Who Knew??? May 25TH is "National Wine Day"!
 
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