Friday 11/11/22
Celebrate:
Air Day
Death/Duty Day
National Metal Day
Origami Day
Pocky Day - is a Japanese marketing event for Pocky, as well as for Pretz, brands of long, thin biscuits―somewhere between cookies and pretzels
Singles' Day
Veterans Day
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New Movie this week:
Black Panter: Wakanda Forever
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As New Republic reporter Grace Segers pointed out, when Pennsylvania Sen.-elect John Fetterman takes office in January, 10% of senators will be named John or Jon. Proportionally, there are three times as many Jo(h)ns in the Senate than there are in the U.S. population!
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Usually grown in bogs since they are buoyant and float for easy harvesting, The cranberry is a genuine American native plant, Vaccinium macrocarpon, a member of the heath family and a relative of the blueberry and huckleberry.
The Pequot Native Americans of Cape Cod called the berry ibimi, meaning “bitter berry,” and combined crushed cranberries with dried venison and fat to make a winter superfood called pemmican.
The Pilgrims and those who followed appreciated the wild berries but did not start to cultivate them until 1816, when a bog was planted and tended in the town of Dennis on Cape Cod. By then, American and Canadian sailors on long voyages knew they could eat cranberries to protect themselves from scurvy—making them a cranberry counterpart to British “limeys.”
The cranberry is a native superfood and is good for you! They’re packed with anti-inflammatory, antibacterial, and antioxidant compounds.
You don't need a bog to grow them though. A 10x5-foot plot will yield up to 10 pounds of delicious berries.
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Today's Useless Fact of the Day - There are more trees on Earth than stars in the Milky Way galaxy . . . approximately 3.04 trillion trees versus 100 to 400 billion stars.
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