{"id":25809,"date":"2013-09-14T00:00:41","date_gmt":"2013-09-14T07:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?p=25809"},"modified":"2013-09-12T22:10:03","modified_gmt":"2013-09-13T05:10:03","slug":"weekly-wrap-volume-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2013\/09\/weekly-wrap-volume-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Wrap Volume 4"},"content":{"rendered":"
This is a weekly wrap of our Daily Knowledge Newsletter. You can get that newsletter for free here<\/a>.<\/div>\n

\"paperclip\"<\/a>The Paperclip was Used as a Symbol of Resistance During WWII<\/a><\/p>\n

In April of 1940, just a few months into World War II, Adolf Hitler knew that he needed a way to break past the Allied blockade of Germany if he had a hope of winning the war. He set his sights on Norway\u2014a risky endeavour, but control of Norwegian waters would make transporting goods into Germany a little bit easier. Norway had declared itself neutral in the conflict, but Hitler wasn\u2019t about to let a little thing like neutrality stop him from getting what he wanted… (more<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\"calendar\"<\/a>The Evolution of the Calendar<\/a><\/p>\n

Perfecting a method of foretelling and predicting the passage of time preoccupied our ancestors from the earliest recorded history. The unending journey of the Sun, Moon and stars across the great expanse of the sky provides clues for numerous methods of marking time, the most obvious to primitive man being the passage of a day (light\/dark) and that of a month (based on phases of the Moon). Measuring the exact length of a year is difficult, but for our ancient ancestors\u2019 less stringent parameters, such as when a certain tree would bloom, was sufficient proof to denote the beginning of a new year…. (more<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\"IG-Nobel-Prize\"<\/a>The IG Nobel Prizes<\/a><\/p>\n

These prizes (10 per year in a variety of categories) are called the IG Nobel Prizes (play on words: “Ignoble Prize”) and are given to those whose work “first makes people laugh, and then makes them think”.\u00a0 Essentially, they are given to people whose research is highly unusual or seemingly trivial, but none-the-less is interesting and sometimes even important. The IG Nobel Prizes have been given out annually since 1991, usually in September or October, by the magazine Annals of Improbable Research<\/em> and is co-sponsored by various Harvard societies… (more<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\"Royal_Navy_Grog_issue2\"<\/a>What Grog was Originally Made Of And How It Got Its Name<\/a><\/p>\n

Although today the word \u201cgrog\u201d has more or less turned into a slang term to refer to just about any alcoholic beverage in many parts of the world, particularly in Australia and New Zealand, grog was originally just a mixture of rum with water, sometimes with a bit of lemon or lime added to sweeten it. Grog was invented by sailors in the British Navy a few centuries ago.\u00a0 Freshwater… (more<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\"seahorse\"<\/a>The Animal Where the Male Becomes Pregnant and Gives Birth<\/a><\/p>\n

The reproductive process of a seahorse begins when a male and a female meet up and \u201cdance\u201d<\/a>. For several days prior to the actual act of mating, the two fish (yes, they are fish) will meet to intertwine their tails and swim together. They also sometimes grip the same strand of sea grass with their tails, and whirl around\u00a0it\u00a0in unison. Scientists believe this courtship and dancing\u00a0synchronizes the movements of the two fish to prepare the male to receive eggs at the same time the female is ready to deposit them…. (more<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Bonus<\/span> Quick Facts:<\/p>\n