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This is a weekly wrap of our Daily Knowledge Newsletter. You can get that newsletter for free here<\/a>.<\/div>\n

\"punch-and-judy\"<\/a>How a Wife Beating, Serial Killer Puppet Gave Us the Expression \u201cPleased as Punch\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

As a child you might have wondered how a bowl of punch could be pleased about anything. Turns out, the saying has nothing to do with the drink. Rather, \u201cpunch\u201d refers to the character in Punch and Judy, a puppet show that has its roots in Italy\u2019s 16th-century commedia dell\u2019arte.\u00a0 By the 17th century, the show had spread to England. The first known record of the English Punch and Judy appears in the journal of Samuel Pepys, who saw the show on May 9, 1662 in Covent Garden, London. He wrote,… (more<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\"roy-chapman-andrews\"<\/a>The Real Life Indiana Jones: Roy Chapman Andrews<\/a><\/p>\n

From the picture there on the right, you might mistake Andrews for Indiana Jones. In fact, Roy Chapman Andrews\u2019 life is like something out of an Indiana Jones movie, but without the Nazis. Not surprising, since it has been widely speculated that he was the man who Indiana Jones was based on. (Although, no one associated with the movies has officially confirmed this, and it\u2019s thought by many that the link is indirect, with Andrews providing the model for many portrayals of adventurers in 1940s and 1950s films, which in turn influenced Lucas in his creation of the character of Indiana Jones)… (more<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\"dessert-340x307\"<\/a>It’s “Just Deserts” Not “Just Desserts”<\/a><\/p>\n

The misconception primarily stems from the fact that most people are unfamiliar with the word \u2018desert\u2019 (pronounced dizert), which more or less means the same thing as the word \u2018deserve\u2019.\u00a0 Instead, when they see the word \u2018desert\u2019, most they think only of the word meaning something to the effect of \u2018dry, sandy wasteland\u2019, which is pronounced \u2018dezert\u2019. In fact, these two words that are spelled the same, but pronounced differently, have their origins in two different Latin words.\u00a0 The word… (more<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\"Wojtek\"<\/a>The Bear Who was Officially a Member of the Polish Army in WWII<\/a><\/p>\n

After being invaded by Germany in the west and later by Soviet Russia in the east, the Polish government fled Warsaw but continued to fight from abroad. After Germany attacked Russia, the Russians decided to release their Polish prisoners of war, who then began re-forming into an army.In April 1942, several of these Polish units landed in Persia and began a trek through a mountainous area heading toward Egypt… (more<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\"USDA_Food_Pyramid\"<\/a>The Origin of the Food Pyramid and Why You Shouldn’t Follow the USDA Version<\/a><\/p>\n

The very first \u201cfood pyramid\u201d was a Swedish invention and it was an invention of necessity more than anything else. Back in 1970s, Sweden saw its country gripped by high food prices. The government then tasked The<\/em> Socialstyrelsen<\/i> (National Board of Health and Welfare) with coming up with a way to help the situation. In response to this, in 1972, they came up with \u201cbasic\u201d and \u201csupplementary\u201d foods- in a nutshell basic foods were foods considered essential to a person\u2019s well-being and supplementary foods were foods that provided vitamins and minerals basic foods did not… (more<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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