{"id":32331,"date":"2014-05-03T00:00:51","date_gmt":"2014-05-03T07:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?p=32331"},"modified":"2014-05-02T01:44:27","modified_gmt":"2014-05-02T08:44:27","slug":"weekly-wrap-volume-36-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2014\/05\/weekly-wrap-volume-36-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Wrap Volume 37"},"content":{"rendered":"
This is a weekly wrap of our Daily Knowledge Newsletter. You can get that newsletter for free here<\/a>.<\/div>\n

\"dog-x-ray\"<\/a>The Eleven Thousand Year Old Contagious Cancer Still Multiplying Today<\/a><\/p>\n

Eleven thousand years ago, one saucy canine got busy and, as can happen with unprotected sex, gave its partner a venereal disease, although uniquely, this VD was cancerous. Over the course of the intervening millennia, that second dog, its partners, and its partners\u2019 partners, all did what dogs eventually do, each spreading the disease, which has continued to retain some DNA from its progenitor. The Disease:\u00a0 First described in 1810, Canine Transmissible Venereal Tumor (CTVT), was first thought to simply be a form of canine cancer of the… (more<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\"king-james-bible\"<\/a>How the King James Bible Came About<\/a><\/p>\n

Back in 1603, Queen Elizabeth I passed away. She had ruled England for 45 years, was well-loved, and provided a sense of stability and security during her reign. Described as \u201cneither a good protestant nor yet resolute papist,\u201d she was able to provide a relatively happy medium between the two warring sects. Having had no children of her own, though, the throne was open to King James VI of Scotland, who became King James I of England upon her death. England had been at war with Scotland on and off over the years. James\u2019 own mother, Mary, had been beheaded by Elizabeth. Still, many people saw the rise of a new king to be the opportunity… (more<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\"jewelry-store\"<\/a>The Speech That Cost Nearly a Billion Dollars<\/a><\/p>\n

Have you ever said something that you ended up immediately regretting or wanted to take back straight away? Well, unless your words cost someone nearly a billion dollars, then you haven\u2019t messed up quite as bad as Gerald Ratner did back in 1991. Yet. Ratner was the CEO of the Ratners Group, jewellers that shook up the usually stiff and inflexible jewellery market by aiming some of its products at the working class through a chain of shops colloquially known as \u201cRatners.\u201d Although the chain was widely ridiculed and considered \u201cgaudy,\u201d \u201ctacky\u201d and \u201ccheap\u201d by the press and other jewellers, many wanting… (more<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\"poppy-seed\"<\/a>Can Eating Poppy Seeds Really Cause You to Fail a Drug Test?<\/a><\/p>\n

When Elaine on Seinfeld<\/a> failed a drug test after eating a poppy seed muffin back in the 1996 episode \u201cThe Shower Head,\u201d the idea that you could fail a drug test after eating poppy seeds took off. Turns out, this wasn\u2019t yet another<\/a> Hollywood writer<\/a> invention<\/a>\u2014you really can potentially fail a drug test if you eat poppy seeds. Before they\u2019re put into muffins, bagels, or cakes, poppy seeds can be found in poppy seed pods. It just so happens that opium is found in those same seed pods\u2014it is a milky substance that is extracted from the seed pods which contains morphine and codeine, among other… (more<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\"Severan_dynasty\"<\/a>Damnatio Memoriae: When the Romans Purposely Erased People from History<\/a><\/p>\n

Damnatio memoriae (condemnation of memory) was a punishment reserved for certain people the Romans decided to dishonour for one reason or another. Rather impressively, it involved trying to get rid of all records that the person ever existed. Understandably, historians aren\u2019t aware of any people to whom this dishonor was successfully applied, since if they did, it wouldn\u2019t have been successful. They are, however, aware of a number of high profile cases in which damnatio memoriae was decreed, but we still know of the individuals today. Before we get ahead of ourselves, we should discuss what the specifics… (more<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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