#TodayILearned Truman Capote was fired from the New Yorker in the early 40‘s for inadvertently offending Robert Frost 😂 It happens.
Thanks to everyone who joined in this month for #NFN
#TodayILearned Wayne Newton is still alive. Good for him. Googled while watching National Lampoons Vegas Vacation. That‘s all I got today 😂
During early Puritan America until the end of the 18th century, “ bundling”, a custom in which couples were “ bundled” separately in cloths & permitted to spend nights together in bed, parental approval was common. It was thought that this practice would create lasting relationships & ultimately marriage.
I am having so@much fun learning about the sexual mores & practices in 17th, 18th & 19th centuries. #NFNovember #TodayILearned #NFN
The idea for Frankenstein came to Shelley during a ghost story competition with her husband Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord Byron, and John Polidori during the cold summer of 1816. #TodayILearned #NFN
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Confucius was born in toughly 500 BCE and it will take over a couple of centuries before his ideas have impact.
#TodayILearned that hot peppers were not used in European, African or Asian cuisines before the 16th century. Even though I had known that chili peppers came from the Americas, I somehow didn't clue in, since I've enjoyed so many hot spicy foods from Indian, Korean and other cuisines!
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Lichens take nutrients from the air and so absorb many times more radioactive isotopes than other plants. #TodayILearned #NFN
Today I learned these yew trees may have inspired Tolkien‘s door into Moria. It‘s a perfect Tree A Day and Tolkien crossover.
#ATreeADay #NaturaLitsy #FellowshipOfTolkien #NonfictionNovember #NFNovember #TodayILearned
#TodayILearned that taconite is low-grade sedimentary rock containing iron-bearing minerals mixed with other materials like quartz. #NFN
The Edmund Fitzgerald was overloaded by more than 1,000 tons so they could break a record. #TodayILearned #NFN
