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Post by soutxed on Jul 17, 2024 7:52:37 GMT -5
July 17, 2018, Barack Obama gives speech honoring Nelson Mandela and warning of "strongman politics" in Johannesburg, South Africa.
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Post by VanIsleRover on Jul 17, 2024 14:41:39 GMT -5
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17 July 1955
Disneyland, an amusement park featuring attractions based on the creations of Walt Disney and the Disney Company, opened in Anaheim, California.
1902 American mechanical engineer Willis Carrier completed drawings for what would became the first modern air conditioner.
1862 Abraham Lincoln's wartime Congress passed the second Confiscation Act, a precursor to the Emancipation Proclamation.
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Post by MidnightSun on Jul 17, 2024 21:10:45 GMT -5
Too much water can kill you. Drinking too much water can be deadly. When guzzling a lot of liquid, you can suffer from water intoxication or hyponatremia, which occurs after an obscene amount of water is consumed, often during endurance events when participants are also losing sodium through their sweat. There have been many notable cases, including the 2002 Boston Marathon competitor Cynthia Lucero, who died from overhydration. Who knew?
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Post by sandipaws on Jul 17, 2024 21:55:02 GMT -5
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National Peach Ice Cream Day on July 17 sweetens the day with a few scoops at the peak of peach season. Since peaches begin peaking in July, this celebration comes just in time. Plus, it also lands right in the middle of National Ice Cream Month.So, it's an excellent time to add peach ice cream to the growing list of flavors to choose from when it comes to frozen, creamy treats. Generally speaking, there are two types of peaches - freestone and clingstone.
The difference has to do with how the flesh comes away from the stone or the pit in the middle of the peach. When the meat comes away freely from the stone, the peach is a freestone peach; if the flesh clings to it, it's a clingstone.
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Post by BillG on Jul 18, 2024 5:39:07 GMT -5
Who Knew??? July 18TH is "World Snake Day"!
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Post by soutxed on Jul 18, 2024 7:57:19 GMT -5
July 18, 2019 Children's songs "Baby Shark" and "Raining Tacos" used by City of West Palm Beach, Florida to drive away homeless people from the waterfront.
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Post by VanIsleRover on Jul 18, 2024 9:04:28 GMT -5
Who Knew?? www.britannica.com/on-this-day/July-18
2018 Detroit submitted a claim for Chapter 9 bankruptcy protection, the largest such filing for a U.S. city ever; the city officially emerged from bankruptcy the following year. 1976 For her performance in the uneven parallel bars at the Olympic Games in Montreal, Nadia Comăneci of Romania became the first gymnast to be awarded a perfect score of 10 in an Olympic gymnastic event. 1944 Allied forces captured the French town of Saint-Lô, a vital communications centre, during World War II. 1927 American baseball player Ty Cobb collected his 4,000th career hit. 1925 Publication of Mein Kampf The first volume of Mein Kampf, the political manifesto written by Adolf Hitler that became the bible of Nazism in Germany's Third Reich, was published this day in 1925, and two years later the second volume appeared. 1918 French General Ferdinand Foch launched a counterstrike that forced the Germans into a hasty retreat during the Second Battle of the Marne, the last large German offensive of World War I.
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Post by johnmori on Jul 18, 2024 13:13:42 GMT -5
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July 18, 1968 Intel is founded in Mountain View, California.
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Post by MidnightSun on Jul 19, 2024 0:50:48 GMT -5
No number from 1 to 999 includes the letter "a" in its word form. Unless you live in the United Kingdom where it's proper to write 101 as "one hundred and one," there is no number from 1 to 999 that includes the letter "a" in its word form, according to longtime math teacher Jonathan Garnett-Smith. One, two, three, four, five, six… twenty, thirty, forty, fifty, sixty… You can keep going, but you won't find the first letter of the alphabet until you hit "one thousand." Who knew?
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Post by soutxed on Jul 19, 2024 7:42:47 GMT -5
July 19, 1900, Paris Metro opens. One of the densest metros in the world and the second largest metro in Europe, the first line of the Paris Metro opened during the World's Fair.
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Post by BillG on Jul 19, 2024 8:10:36 GMT -5
Who Knew??? July 19TH is "National Daiquiri Day"!
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Post by VanIsleRover on Jul 19, 2024 10:43:24 GMT -5
Who Knew?? 19 July www.britannica.com/on-this-day/July-19
1848 U.S. women's suffrage movement begun On this day in 1848, the women's suffrage movement in the United States was launched with the opening of the Seneca Falls Convention, which sought to gain certain rights and privileges for women, notably the right to vote. 2007 The first episode of Mad Men aired, and the series, which starred Jon Hamm, quickly became a critical and commercial hit, noted for its nuanced representation of social life in the 1960s and for its stylish visual flair. 1980 The Summer Olympics opened in Moscow, though some 60 countries refused to attend because of the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan in 1979; it was the largest boycott in the history of the Olympic movement 1545 During the Battle of the Solent, the Mary Rose, a warship that often served as the flagship of the English fleet, sank in a strait of the English Channel; the wreck was raised in 1982 and put on display in 2013.
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Post by sandipaws on Jul 19, 2024 15:55:27 GMT -5
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July 19, National Daiquiri Day
On July 19, National Words With Friends Day recognizes friendly competition and smart wordplay. The celebration also honors the 2009 launch of the popular game franchise! Since before the invention of the dictionary, people have challenged each other with word puzzles and games. The day honors the intellectual spirit and camaraderie that comes with playing word games.
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Post by MidnightSun on Jul 19, 2024 18:14:27 GMT -5
Hot water freezes faster than cold water. Crazy, right? A number of explanations have been suggested for "the Mpemba effect," including one that posits warm containers conduct heat more efficiently, and another that suggests warm water evaporates faster. Who knew?
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Post by BillG on Jul 20, 2024 5:42:54 GMT -5
Who Knew??? July 20TH is "National Fortune Cookie Day"!
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