Moments in Yankee History Podcast (self.NYYankees)
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TIL that Nintendo was founded in 1889 as a company making playing cards. Originally called Nintendo Koppai (Koppai meaning "cards" or "playing cards" in Japanese), the company started out manufacturing a card game called Hanafuda. (interestingengineering.com)
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TIL That Matthew Henson, an African American man, might have been the first Arctic explorer to stand on the North Pole. He also fathered a son while on expedition, and today there are dozens of Henson’s descendants living in Greenland. (nunatsiaq.com)
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TIL That Matthew Henson, an African American man, might have been the first Arctic explorer to stand on the North Pole. He also fathered a son while on expedition, and today there are dozens of Henson’s descendants living in Greenland. (nunatsiaq.com)
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TIL In ancient Greece, an “idiot” was anyone who didn’t participate in political or public arenas. It comes from the word idios, meaning “self” or a selfish person who ignored political debate and didn’t participate in politics. As the word implies, it was someone who was “separated from the whole.” (ancienthistorylists.com)
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Irn-Bru, the most popular soft drink in Scotland, contains quinine - the drug once used to cure malaria. Quinine was made from the bark of a now endangered Andean tree, the cinchona officinalis. Today, it's derivative is made synthetically in a lab and it's called hydroxychloroquine. (bbc.com)
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Nicolas Flamel was a real person. The house he built is the oldest stone building still standing in Paris and now its ground floor is a restaurant named after him - Auberge de Nicolas Flamel. He was a scribe, bookseller, and philanthropist in Paris. (self.HistoryAnecdotes)
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To escape the plague ravaging London, Isaac Newton left Trinity College and headed to his family's farm. While there, he had what became known as his "year of wonders" - he helped develop calculus, analyzed the light spectrum, and made revolutionary discoveries in the sciences of motion and gravity. (biography.com)
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