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Today is National Doughnut Day. Here are some things you may not have known about the event and the confectionery itself. National Doughnut Day was created in 1938 by The Salvation Army to honor their roughly 250 members who served doughnuts to soldiers during World War I. Their original plan was to provide baked goods to servicemen, but finding reliable […]

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Get your free 30-day trial of Audible at triviapeople.com/audible On this date in 1953, the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II was held. Here are some things you may not have known about it. Elizabeth became queen more than a year before the coronation upon the death of her father, George VI, on Feb. 2, 1952. The delay was to allow […]

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On this date in 1495, the first first official record of the production of Scotch whisky was made. Here are some things you may not have known about Scotch. That first record was a tax document for a monk named John Cor who was the distiller at Lindores Abbey in Fife, Scotland. The record indicated that he received enough malt […]

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On this date in 1977, the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System was completed. Here are some things you may not know about it. Oil had been used as fuel on the Arctic shore of Alaska for centuries by native people, usually using oil-soaked peat for heating and lighting. Several attempts were made to determine the feasibility of extracting this oil, but none […]

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On this date in 1962, a mine fire under the town of Centralia, Pennsylvania, was discovered. It continues to burn to this day. Here are a few things you may not have known about it. Centralia is located about halfway between Wilkes-Barre and Harrisburg, in the heart of Pennsylvania’s Coal Country. At its peak, the town had a population of […]

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On this date in 1828, an alleged feral child named Kaspar Hauser was discovered in Nuremberg, Germany. Here are a few things you may not have known about Hauser and feral children. Feral children are those that are isolated from human contact at an early age and have little to no understanding of human behavior, culture or language. The vast […]

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On this date in 1968, the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri, was dedicated. Here are some things you may not have known about it. The Gateway Arch is a monument to the western expansion of the United States. It sits in the center of the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial on the western bank of the Mississippi River. One of […]

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On this date in 1976, the first Concorde flight between London and Washington, D.C. took place. Here are some things you may not have known about Concorde. The idea of supersonic passenger flights began in the early 1950s, a few years after Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier for the first time in 1947. The British government began making practical […]

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Today is World Turtle Day. Here are some things you may not have known about them. Turtles are reptiles that belong to the order Testudines. Their defining characteristic is their shell, which is made of bone or cartilage depending on the species. In American English, the word turtle is used to describe all members of the order, including tortoises. British […]

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On this date in 1862, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act into law. Here are some things you may not have known about homesteading in the United States. The idea of opening up the American west to settlement had been proposed several times by northern lawmakers before the Civil War. Southern lawmakers, however blocked these efforts in an […]

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