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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

\"golf\"<\/a>Why Golfers Yell “Fore” and Other Interesting Golf Facts<\/a><\/p>\n

There is a long-standing belief that golf was invented by the Scottish, sometime in the 14th or 15th centuries. This maybe false, at least according to Chinese professors and the Hong Kong Heritage Museum. In 2006, evidence was presented that the game may have originated from the ancient Chinese game \u201cChuiwan\u201d \u2013 loosely translated to \u201chitting ball.\u201d Two paintings, one dating back to the Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368), show figures playing some sort of ball and stick game that looks like today\u2019s game of golf. While the Scottish and the French dispute that the current game of golf came from the Far East, it is pretty clear that today\u2019s modern game is a composite of ball and stick games played across the world hundreds, if not thousands, of years ago. With that, here are four other answers to questions…. (more<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\"Emily_Warren_Roebling\"<\/a>Emily Warren Roebling and the Brooklyn Bridge<\/a><\/p>\n

To this day, the Brooklyn Bridge remains a monumental civil engineering feat. Connecting the boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn and extending across the East River, the bridge is a New York City icon. When finally finished in 1883, it was the first steel-wire suspension bridge ever constructed. It is said that today over 125,000 motor vehicles cross the 130 year old bridge daily, but few know the real story and history behind this American marvel. Even fewer know who truly was in charge of overseeing its construction and completion \u2013 Emily Warren Roebling, the world\u2019s first female field engineer. Emily was born on September 23, 1843 into an upper middle class home in Cold Springs, New York. Her father was Sylvanus… (more<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\"spider\"<\/a>The Life Saving Animal Blood Worth $60,000 Per Gallon and the Truth About the Colour of Spider Blood<\/a><\/p>\n

When it comes to spiders, people generally know two facts about them- that you swallow around eight of them per year and that their blood is bright blue. Fortunately, the former is absolutely not true at all, the latter, on the other hand, is mostly correct. While it\u2019s certainly true that spiders have blue liquid in their veins, the reality is a bit more grounded than is sometimes depicted, with the fluid a much more reserved shade of blue-ish green. Also, thanks to fact that spiders are (generally) so tiny and contain very little liquid, you\u2019re not going to see too much of this after smashing one. It should also be… (more<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\"pony-express-rider\"<\/a>The Surprisingly Short History of the Pony Express<\/a><\/p>\n

Given that most have still heard of the Pony Express today, unlike so many other messaging companies long gone, you may think that the Pony Express was once an integral part of communication between the East and West in the United States. It turns out, this was never the case and the Pony Express was around only for an extremely short amount of time. It all started on April 3, 1860, when two riders, one in Sacramento, California, the other in St. Joseph, Missouri, simultaneously embarked on a mirror-like mission \u2013 carry mail across the difficult and dangerous terrain of the American West in the shortest amount of time possible. With each load… (more<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\"pirate2\"<\/a>What the Nautical Term \u2018Avast\u2019 Means and The Origin of Many Other Seafaring Words and Phrases<\/a><\/p>\n

Avast: meaning \u201cstop\u201d or \u201chold still.\u201d The word was originally derived from the Dutch phrase \u201choud vast,\u201d which literally means \u201chold fast.\u201d\u00a0 The frequent usage of this phrase eventually got it slurred down to \u201chou\u2019 vast\u201d and later \u201cavast.\u201d This became a common term among sea-folk around the late 17th century. Coxswain: a boy servant (swain) in charge of a small cock. The cock was a small boat used to transport the captain to and from the ship.\u00a0 This term has its origins all the way back in the 15th century.\u00a0 It has since been replaced with \u201chelmsman,\u201d though \u201chelmsman\u201d can also refer to the person currently in charge of controlling the actual ship itself. Scuttlebutt: a cask of drinking water aboard a ship.\u00a0 A \u201cbutt\u201d being the wooden cask and \u201cscuttle\u201d being the act of drilling a hole in the butt.\u00a0 Sailors… (more<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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