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Post by MidnightSun on May 26, 2024 1:19:11 GMT -5
The largest turtle ever recorded weighed more than a ton. The largest and heaviest turtle ever recorded was a leatherback that washed ashore in the United Kingdom in Sept. 1988 after it had drowned when it was trapped in a fishing line. Around 100 years old at the time of its death, the turtle was almost 9 feet long and weighed 2,016 pounds.
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Post by johnmori on May 26, 2024 8:29:22 GMT -5
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May 26, 1896
Charles Dow publishes the first edition of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
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Post by MidnightSun on May 26, 2024 19:50:31 GMT -5
The gold in Earth's core could cover the planet in a knee-high layer. Down in Earth's core, there's a stash of gold that sank to its current location when the planet was still in a molten state. In fact, there's so much of the precious metal down there that if it were to cover Earth's surface, it would create a layer that was about 13 inches thick.
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Post by VanIsleRover on May 26, 2024 21:57:52 GMT -5
Who Knew?? 26 May 1927 The Ford Motor Company ended production of its famed Model T, which had helped “democratize the automobile.” 1913 Actors' Equity Association, the trade union for American performing artists, was founded. 1897 Irish writer Bram Stoker published the Gothic horror classic Dracula, which became the basis for an entire genre of literature and films about vampires. 1868 The impeachment trial of U.S. President Andrew Johnson—who had been accused of, among other things, bringing “into disgrace, ridicule, hatred, contempt, and reproach the Congress of the United States”—ended with his acquittal in the Senate. www.britannica.com/on-this-day/May-26 |
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Post by sandipaws on May 27, 2024 0:16:57 GMT -5
Who Knew???Each year in the United States, Americans observe the Federal holiday, Memorial Day, the last Monday in May.
It honors and remembers all men and women who have died while serving in the United States Armed Forces.
Memorial Day is also a day to remember all loved ones who have passed away.
 Traditionally on Memorial Day, the flag of the United States of America is raised briskly to the top of the staff then solemnly lowered
to the half-staff position where it remains until noon. At noon, it is then raised to full-staff for the remainder of the day.
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Post by BillG on May 27, 2024 6:23:31 GMT -5
Who Knew??? May 27TH is "National Grape Popsicle Day"!
 
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Post by johnmori on May 27, 2024 7:35:15 GMT -5
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May 27, 1958
First flight of the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II.
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Post by soutxed on May 27, 2024 7:52:00 GMT -5
May 27, 1937, San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge debuts. After four years of construction, the Golden Gate Bridge opens, connecting San Francisco and Marin County. About 200,000 people walk across the 4,200-foot-long suspension bridge to celebrate. It will open to vehicles the following day.
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Post by VanIsleRover on May 27, 2024 12:42:49 GMT -5
Who Knew?? www.britannica.com/on-this-day/May-2727 May 1941 In World War II the British navy sank the German battleship Bismarck. 1933 Walt Disney released the animated short film The Three Little Pigs, which featured the song Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?; highlighting fortitude in the face of adversity, both the cartoon and the song proved highly popular with Depression-era moviegoers. 1889 The American petrochemical corporation South Penn Oil Co., later Pennzoil Company, was founded in Pennsylvania. 1660 The Treaty of Copenhagen between Sweden and Denmark-Norway was signed, concluding a generation of warfare between the two powers as well as helping to establish the modern boundaries of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. |
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Post by MidnightSun on May 27, 2024 23:21:50 GMT -5
A million seconds is about 12 days while a billion seconds is about 32 years. A million dollars may sound almost as good as a billion, but that's only because the average person has no concept of the staggeringly vast difference between the two amounts. However, The New York Times breaks it down for us by using time as an example. "It would take almost 12 days for a million seconds to elapse and 31.7 years for a billion seconds," according to a 1986 article. Yeah, that's a huge difference. On top of that, "a trillion seconds would amount to no less than 31,709.8 years."
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Post by johnmori on May 28, 2024 6:13:25 GMT -5
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May 28, 1996
U.S. President Bill Clinton's former business partners in the Whitewater land deal, Jim McDougal and Susan McDougal, and the Governor of Arkansas, Jim Guy Tucker, are convicted of fraud.
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Post by soutxed on May 28, 2024 8:03:32 GMT -5
May 28, 1937 Volkswagen (VW) is founded. The automobile manufacturer whose name means “People's Car” in German is one of the world's biggest. It produced classics like the VW Golf and the VW Beetle.
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Post by MidnightSun on May 28, 2024 22:51:16 GMT -5
Americans thought tomatoes were poisonous until the early 19th century. Back in the 1700s, people deemed tomatoes "poison apples." That's because tomatoes are highly acidic, and so when European aristocrats ate them off their pewter plates, the food leached lead from the dish and passed it on to the diner. That resulted in lead poisoning, which could sometimes cause death, according to Smithsonian. The "poison apple" myth prevailed in Britain and its North American colonies for more than 200 years, until it was dispelled in the early 1800's.
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Post by BillG on May 29, 2024 5:40:41 GMT -5
Who Knew??? May 29TH is "National Paperclip Day"!
 
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Post by soutxed on May 29, 2024 8:05:37 GMT -5
May 29, 1996 Benjamin Netanyahu becomes Israel's prime minister. The conservative politician is criticized for hampering the peace process that former prime minister, Yitzhak Rabin, had promoted.
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