|
|
Post by MidnightSun on Nov 12, 2024 23:55:56 GMT -5
The world’s smallest wasp is tinier than most one-cell amoebas. The Megaphragma mymaripenne wasp has muscles, guts, wings, eyes, a brain, and genitals. However, this teeny-tiny insect—which is the smallest wasp in the world and the third smallest insect in the world—measures around 200 micrometers, which is a fifth of a millimeter and smaller than many one-cell amoebas.
Who knew?
|
|
|
|
Post by sandipaws on Nov 13, 2024 1:55:49 GMT -5
Who Knew???
National Indian Pudding Day recognizes a cold-weather classic.
On November 13th each year, serve up this traditional New England dessert that's sure to wow.
In the seventeenth century, English colonists brought hasty puddingto North America, transforming it.
Although they initially made the pudding with wheat, due to a shortage of grain, the colonists eventually used cornmeal.
Since the colonists had learned to cultivate maize (corn) from the indigenous peoples, the crop was readily available.
The colonists derived the name for Indian pudding from their name for cornmeal - Indian meal. They also replaced the water with milk.
For added flavor, cooks add either molasses or maple syrup. Other ingredients they added include cinnamon, ground ginger, butter, eggs, raisins, and nuts.
They then slowly baked the Indian pudding for several hours.
Baking transforms the pudding's texture from the original porridge-like quality ofhasty pudding to a much smoother consistency which is more typical of custard.
|
|
|
|
Post by BillG on Nov 13, 2024 7:26:35 GMT -5
Who Knew??? November 13TH is actor Joe Mantegna's birthday! (77 years old)
 
|
|
soutxed
Champion Member
Posts: 5,181
|
Post by soutxed on Nov 13, 2024 9:36:17 GMT -5
November 13, 1956, In Browder v. Gayle, the Supreme Court strikes down Alabama laws requiring racial segregation on public buses. The high court rules these laws violate the 14th Amendment, which provides for equal protection under the law. The Montgomery Bus Boycott will end soon after the decision.
|
|
|
|
Post by johnmori on Nov 13, 2024 13:34:33 GMT -5
Who knew???
November 13, 1956
The Supreme Court of the United States affirmed a lower court ruling that invalidated Alabama laws requiring segregated buses, thus ending the Montgomery bus boycott.
|
|
|
|
Post by MidnightSun on Nov 13, 2024 20:33:32 GMT -5
Peas are a popular pizza topping in Brazil. People in North America are fairly faithful to pepperoni pizza, but in Brazil, you'll be able to find pizza with green peas on it. And in Germany, you'll find pizza topped with seafood, such as canned tuna.
Who knew?
|
|
|
|
Post by BillG on Nov 14, 2024 6:56:47 GMT -5
Who Knew??? November 14TH is "National Pickle Day"!
 
|
|
soutxed
Champion Member
Posts: 5,181
|
Post by soutxed on Nov 14, 2024 8:56:35 GMT -5
November 14, 1889 New York World reporter Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane) begins her attempt to surpass the fictitious journey of Jules Verne's Phileas Fogg by traveling around the world in under 80 days. She succeeds, finishing the trip in 72 days, 6 hours.
|
|
|
|
Post by johnmori on Nov 14, 2024 11:12:12 GMT -5
Who knew???
November 14, 1995
A budget standoff between Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. Congress forces the federal government to temporarily close national parks and museums and to run most government offices with skeleton staffs.
|
|
|
|
Post by VanIsleRover on Nov 14, 2024 13:47:45 GMT -5
Who Knew??
1969: Apollo 12 was launched, carrying a crew of Charles Conrad, Jr., Richard F. Gordon, Jr., and Alan L. Bean, and five days later the mission made the second landing on the Moon.
|
|
|
|
Post by MidnightSun on Nov 14, 2024 20:50:26 GMT -5
Foreign accent syndrome is an actual disorder. This speech disorder, which can occur after traumatic brain injury or stroke, is when a person's way of speaking shifts from a native accent to a foreign one. Among the cases identified are American English to British English, Japanese to Korean, British English to French, and Spanish to Hungarian.
Who knew?
|
|
|
|
Post by BillG on Nov 15, 2024 7:15:58 GMT -5
Who Knew??? November 15TH is "National Raisin Bran Cereal Day"!
 
|
|
soutxed
Champion Member
Posts: 5,181
|
Post by soutxed on Nov 15, 2024 8:53:03 GMT -5
November 15, 1864, Union General William T. Sherman and his troops torch the captured city of Atlanta, leaving it a smoldering ruin before riding out to begin their five-week march through Georgia to the port of Savannah. In their wake, they'll leave a trail of destroyed industry, ransacked private property, and a huge number of refugees.
|
|
|
|
Post by johnmori on Nov 15, 2024 10:56:07 GMT -5
Who knew???
November 15, 2013
Sony releases the PlayStation 4 (PS4) game console.
|
|
|
|
Post by VanIsleRover on Nov 15, 2024 13:29:09 GMT -5
Who Knew?? The full moon is a whole-Earth event. And every full moon is opposite the sun, rising when the sun sets and setting when the sun rises. At full moon, the sun, Earth, and moon form a line in space, with Earth in the middle. It’s at this time that the moon’s fully lighted hemisphere – its day side – faces Earth most directly. November full moon is Beaver or Frosty Moon All the full moons have popular nicknames. If the full moon in November falls before November 7, it’s called the Hunter’s Moon. Otherwise, as in 2024, you can call November’s full moon the Beaver Moon, or Frosty Moon. That’s because in November, North American beavers are preparing their dens – and stocking up on food – for the coming cold months. We also hear the name Digging Moon for this November full moon, because it’s the last chance for seasonal foraging by forest animals. www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4CISOB5pWU&t=75s |
|
