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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

\"tang\"<\/a>Tang was Not Invented for the Space Program<\/a><\/p>\n

In fact, Tang was actually invented by chemist and occasional playwright William A. Mitchell in 1957 while he was working for General Foods. General Foods introduced Tang to the public in powder form in 1959, but it wasn\u2019t popular initially.\u00a0This changed when NASA decided to use it in 1962 during John Glenn\u2019s Mercury flight and later in 1965 during the Gemini program. According to an engineer… (more<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\"communion-340x267\"<\/a>Welch’s Grape Juice Started Out as a Substitute for Sacramental Wine<\/a><\/p>\n

You\u2019ve probably heard about Jesus turning water into wine, but Dr. Thomas Bramwell Welch is a lesser-known drink magician who developed a way to turn something that would have been wine into a non-alcoholic version of the drink, in an attempt to make an \u201cunfermented sacramental wine\u201d. \u00a0Dr. Welch was a physician, a dentist and a Methodist minister in Vineland, New Jersey. At the time, Methodists were strongly opposed to the consumption… (more<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\"nuclear-missile2-340x240\"<\/a>How the Cold War Started and Ended<\/a><\/p>\n

One of the earliest marked events of the Cold War arose from the anti-Communism remarks of British leader Winston Churchill.\u00a0 On March 5, 1946, in a famous speech characteristic of the political climate of the time, he said,\u00a0“From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an \u201cIron Curtain\u201d has descended across the continent. Behind that…” (more<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\"crayons-e1309514366623\"<\/a>The Origin of the Words “Crayola” and “Crayon”<\/a><\/p>\n

The word \u201cCrayola\u201d was originally thought up by Alice Binney. Binney, a one-time school teacher, combined the French word \u201ccraie\u201d, meaning \u201cchalk\u201d, with \u201cola\u201d, shortened from the French word \u201col\u00e9agineux\u201d, meaning \u201coily\u201d.\u00a0Craie is also where \u201ccrayon\u201d gets its leading \u201ccray\u201d, though the word \u201ccrayon\u201d existed long before Crayola crayons were invented.\u00a0 It first appeared around the 16th… (more<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\"stethescope\"<\/a>Doctors are Not Bound by the Hippocratic Oath, Thankfully<\/a><\/p>\n

A binding agreement, as much a social contract<\/a> as Social Security or Medicare, the traditional Hippocratic Oath holds those who swear to it to a strict code of professional and personal conduct. Contrary to popular belief, though, most doctors never take this oath, and, actually, most of us are probably glad they never do.\u00a0Although scholars disagree about when it was written, or even who wrote it, the general consensus is that the Hippocratic Oath was penned about 2500 years ago. Most commonly attributed to Hippocrates<\/a>, the father of modern medicine… (more<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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