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Post by MidnightSun on Jun 7, 2024 4:53:31 GMT -5
Our taste buds grow up with us. Have you noticed that spinach became easier to eat as you grew older? Or maybe it was anchovies or olives. Whatever the food, a 2015 survey conducted by Butterkist revealed some insights as to why this might be, as The Telegraph reported.
According to Butterkist's research, each person is born with approximately 10,000 taste buds that are replaced around every two weeks. However, as we get older, taste buds stop being replaced, and those numbers start to decrease. This causes flavors that were too intense when we were younger to become more palatable as we age.
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Post by BillG on Jun 7, 2024 5:54:00 GMT -5
Who Knew??? June 7TH is "National Donut Day"!
 
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Post by soutxed on Jun 7, 2024 7:49:52 GMT -5
June 7, 1968, The world's first Legoland resort opens. The Legoland in Billund, Denmark was the first of six theme parks based around the Lego interlocking plastic bricks. Billund is the home of The Lego Group.
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Post by johnmori on Jun 7, 2024 8:26:41 GMT -5
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June 7, 1946
The United Kingdom's BBC returns to broadcasting its television service, which has been off air for seven years because of World War II.
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Post by VanIsleRover on Jun 7, 2024 15:41:04 GMT -5
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7 June
1982 Graceland—Elvis Presley's home in Memphis, Tennessee, where he died in 1977—was opened for public tours
and became one of the top tourist attractions in the United States.
1965 In the landmark case of Griswold v. State of Connecticut,
the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favour of the constitutional right of married persons to use birth control.
1929 Lateran Treaty ratified
Through the Lateran Treaty—signed February 11, 1929, by Benito Mussolini for Italy and by Pietro Gasparri, cardinal secretary of state, for the papacy and ratified this day in 1929—Vatican City became a sovereign state.
1576 English navigator Martin Frobisher, seeking a Northwest Passage to the Pacific Ocean, departed England,
and weeks later he reached Labrador and Baffin Island and discovered the bay that now bears his name.
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Post by MidnightSun on Jun 7, 2024 20:59:46 GMT -5
There's a top-secret Starbucks for CIA agents. When you're a CIA agent, it's extra important to stay caffeinated. Enter the world's most top-secret Starbucks. According to The Washington Post, it's listed as Store Number 1 on receipts, and its baristas must go through extensive and rigorous interviews and background checks. In order to leave their post, they must be escorted by agency "minders." Oh, and — as you might have guessed — names aren't written on the iconic cups.
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Post by VanIsleRover on Jun 8, 2024 0:25:08 GMT -5
Who Knew?? Celebrate World Ocean Day on 8 June and throughout the year! worldoceanday.org/2009 The United Nations hosted its first World Oceans Day, which sought to celebrate oceans while also raising awareness of the threats that they and their marine ecosystems faced. 2002 Serena Williams defeated her sister Venus Williams to win her first French Open tennis title. 1966 The National Football League and the American Football League announced a merger, which became effective in 1970. 1949 British author George Orwell published his dystopian classic Nineteen Eighty-four, a warning against totalitarianism that introduced such concepts as Big Brother and the Thought Police. 1504 Michelangelo's David installed in Florence Believed to have been installed this day in 1504 in the cathedral of Florence was Michelangelo's statue of David, commissioned in 1501 and considered the prime statement of the Renaissance ideal of perfect humanity. 1191 At the time of the Third Crusade, Richard I joined the Crusaders in Acre, having conquered Cyprus on his way there. |
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Post by BillG on Jun 8, 2024 4:42:54 GMT -5
Who Knew??? June 8TH is "National Dragonfly Day"!
 
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Post by soutxed on Jun 8, 2024 8:30:41 GMT -5
June 8, 1968, Suspected killer of Martin Luther King, Jr. arrested. Two months after civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. was gunned down in Memphis, Tennessee, his suspected assassin is apprehended at London's Heathrow Airport. James Earl Ray will be extradited back to the US, stand trial, and be convicted and sentenced to 99 years in prison.
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Post by johnmori on Jun 8, 2024 9:29:59 GMT -5
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June 8, 1968
James Earl Ray, the man who assassinated Martin Luther King Jr. is arrested at London Heathrow Airport.
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Post by MidnightSun on Jun 9, 2024 0:33:41 GMT -5
Scotland has more than 400 words for "snow." What better way to cope with the cold than by learning all 421 Scottish words for "snow." This was discovered when academics at the University of Glasgow underwent a project to compile a Scots thesaurus, called the Historical Thesaurus of Scots. Some words include: "snaw" (snow), "sneesl" (to begin to rain or snow), and "skelf" (a large snowflake).
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Post by sandipaws on Jun 9, 2024 2:02:40 GMT -5
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National Strawberry Rhubarb Pie Day falls on June 9 each year to recognize a delicious and seasonal pie.
A tart vegetable, rhubarb is often paired with sweet fruits making for a pleasing dessert.
Join us as we explore all things rhubarb. We might even serve a slice of pie for you to enjoy!
 Around the country, rhubarb is a perennial favorite for home gardens.
One of the first fruits of their labors, gardeners begin to harvest rhubarb in the middle of
May and early June, and it finds its way into desserts and preserves.
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Post by johnmori on Jun 9, 2024 5:39:05 GMT -5
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June 9, 1959
The USS George Washington is launched. It is the first nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine.
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Post by soutxed on Jun 9, 2024 7:41:58 GMT -5
June 9, 1934 Donald Duck makes his film debut in The Wise Little Hen. The short-tempered duck typically wearing a sailor suit is one of Walt Disney's most famous cartoon characters. Donald's first book appearance was in The Adventures of Mickey Mouse, which was published in 1931.
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Post by MidnightSun on Jun 9, 2024 18:49:20 GMT -5
The inventor of the microwave wasn't trying to create a microwave. The microwave is an example of a brilliant invention that was stumbled upon when the inventor was trying to create something totally different. In this case, Raytheon engineer Percy Spencer was testing a radar magnetron (which Popular Mechanics describes as a "sort of electric whistle that … creates vibrating electromagnetic waves").
As he was experimenting with improving the level of the magnetron tubes, he realized that the peanut cluster bar in his pocket had melted. After testing the mechanism with an egg and corn kernels, he realized he'd stumbled on something potentially far more useful than the problem he was supposed to be solving.
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