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

\"baseball-night-game\"<\/a>Under the Lights<\/a><\/p>\n

On a field about fifty miles from Boston, Strawberry Hill, on the evening of September 3, 1880, history was made. It is unlikely the department store employees who were tossing around a ball knew that this game would still be talked about 135 years later. As the crowd took their seats, the ball players took their positions; the Sun dipped below the horizon and the Moon rose. And then, the lights came on to illuminate the field. It was said the lights were as bright as \u201c90,000 candles\u201d burning simultaneously. This was the first baseball game played… (more<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\"pre-sliced-bread-e1291111213407\"<\/a>Pre-Sliced Bread Was Once Banned in the United States<\/a><\/p>\n

In 1943, Claude R. Wickard, the head of the War Foods Administration as well as the Secretary of Agriculture, got the bright idea to ban pre-sliced bread in America, which he did on January 18, 1943.\u00a0 The specific reasons behind this aren\u2019t entirely clear, though it was about conservation of resources, particularly generally thought to have been about conserving wax paper, wheat, and steel. With regards to the wax paper conservation, by FDA regulations… (more<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\"execution\"<\/a>The Mock Execution of Fyodor Dostoevsky<\/a><\/p>\n

On December 22, 1849, members of a Russian intellectual literary group known as the Petrashevsky Circle were sent to Semyonov Square to meet their fate \u2013 death by firing squad. With the men pointing their rifles and fingers resting on the trigger, a messenger from the Tsar rode into the square waving a white flag. Like something out of a Hollywood movie, he declared he had an official pardon from the Tsar of Russia, Nicholas I, in a \u201cshow of mercy.\u201d This was not a show of mercy, but rather a staged way of fostering fear, terror, and gratitude. This was a… (more<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\"ketchup\"<\/a>Ketchup or Catsup?<\/a><\/p>\n

The two distinct spellings for what today is essentially the same condiment are simply the reflection of the evolution of nearly everyone\u2019s favorite French fry topper. (Well, in certain regions of the world.) Today often disdained as low-brow, when it was first conceived, ketchup was revered for the flavor it added to foods. Initially a paste made from fermented fish guts… (more<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\"spinster-340x238\"<\/a>Who Was Sadie Hawkins and Why Does She Have a Dance Named After Her?<\/a><\/p>\n

Sadie Hawkins\u2019 renown, which evolved into an American folk-holiday in some places, doesn\u2019t really originate from a dance, but rather from a race, as we shall soon see. Sadie was the product of the fertile imagination of cartoonist Al Capp. She was a character in his popular cartoon Lil\u2019 Abner, set in the hillbilly town of Dogpatch, that began its wildly successful 40 year run in 1934. The way Al tells it, Sadie was the daughter… (more<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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