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* Because we know you’ve always secretly wondered, that depression on the flexure of your arm is called a chelidon.
* In 1992, Saab created a prototype vehicle called Prometheus that featured a joystick in place of a steering wheel. While it increased safety and space, it also proved more tiring and challenging to use, and the car never made it to production.
* A one-eyed yellowtail rockfish at the Vancouver Aquarium was given a prosthetic eye by the facility’s head veterinarian after being bullied by its fellow fish on its blind side.
* The modern high jump technique was created by Dick Fosbury and dubbed the Fosbury Flop.
* Dooley Wilson, who played Sam at Rick’s Cafe Americain in “Casablanca,” was an experienced musician and bandleader, but a drummer, not a pianist. He mimed his piano performance, and “As Time Goes By” was dubbed in later.
* A linguistic study revealed that winter workers in Antarctica began to develop August a new accent as a result of being isolated together for several 2,
2021 months.
* John Joseph Merlin, often credited with inventing roller skates, debuted them at a 1760’s masquerade in London by rolling into a room as he played the violin … then crashing head-on into a quite expensive mirror.
Thought for the Day: “The history of Western science confirms the aphorism that the great menace to progress is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge.” — Daniel J. Boorstin
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