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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

THE SURPRISINGLY RECENT TIME TESTS USING RABBITS AND FROGS WERE THE GOLD STANDARD TO ACCURATELY DETECT HUMAN PREGNANCY<\/a>
\n\"pregnant-rabbit\"<\/a>We live in an age where determining if a woman is pregnant is ridiculously simple and cheap. Go back a few decades, though, and the latest and greatest technology for determining whether a woman was with child involved a syringe full of urine and little animals.\u00a0Yes, as bizarre as it\u2019s going to sound, you really can use things like rabbits (or a number of other animals) to detect whether a woman is pregnant. To be clear, this isn\u2019t just an old wives\u2019 tale that\u2019s only correct just enough to keep people believing it via confirmation bias or something like that, \u201cThe Rabbit Test\u201d, as it is aptly known, is around 98.9% accurate (for reference, modern home pregnancy tests tend to range from 97%-99% in accuracy). Some version of this test has been the de facto way to test whether a woman was pregnant from the time the method was discovered in 1927, right up until the 1970s. The only real improvement…(more<\/a>)<\/p>\n

LIFE IN A JAR- SENDLER\u2019S LIST<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Irena_Sendlerowa\"<\/a>In 1999 a teacher at Uniontown High School in Kansas encouraged four students to do a project for a national History Day contest. Norm Conard told his 9th-grade students\u2014Elizabeth Cambers, Megan Stewart, and Janice Underwood, and 11th-grader Sabrina Coons\u2014that the project should reflect the classroom motto, \u201cHe who changes one person, changes the world entire.\u201d The quote is from the Jewish holy book the Talmud, and Conard suggested basing the project on the Holocaust.\u00a0He showed them a 1994 news clipping about \u201cother Schindlers,\u201d people who, like Oskar Schindler (made famous in the film Schindler\u2019s List), had saved Jews from the Nazis during World War II. One of the people mentioned was a Polish woman named Irena Sendler, who was said to have saved 2,500 Jewish children from the Warsaw ghetto…(more<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\"Sirfrancisdashwood\"<\/a>THE NOT-SO-HOLY ORDER OF THE FRIARS OF ST. FRANCIS OF WYCOMBE<\/a><\/p>\n

Established in West Wycombe by Sir Francis Dashwood in 1749, the Brotherhood of St. Francis of Wycombe was anything but saintly. Devoted to wicked fun and debauchery, for the next two decades, many notable individuals in England counted themselves members, such as the 4th Earl of Sandwich, John Montagu, Baron George Dodington, member of Parliament Thomas Potter, and, while not a full member, distinguished guest Ben Franklin, who was a friend of Dashwood\u2019s and is known to have attended meetings when in town. In these meetings, the group drank, ate and fornicated at will, trying their hardest to live up to the future moniker of \u201cHellfire Club\u201d.\u00a0Although the Order first met in London at the George and Vulture pub, beginning in 1750, Dashwood leased Medmenham Abbey, a rundown former Cistercian abbey, which was close to his home. Rebuilding it and excavating…(more<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\"pet-food-340x227\"<\/a>IS PET FOOD SAFE FOR HUMANS TO EAT?<\/a><\/p>\n

Nearly 80 million American households have a pet, with a majority being a cat or dog. Additionally, 42% of homes have more than one pet. A lot of food is needed to feed all of these animals, so it should come as no surprise that pet food is a 21 billion dollar industry. While this food is specially made for our four-legged pals, the question many have (including this researcher) is- in a post-apocalyptic world where human food was scarce, could I eat my cat\u2019s wet food? Would I get sick from eating my dog\u2019s milk bones?\u00a0For the short answer, while it certainly doesn\u2019t look appetizing, nor (probably) taste any good, the answer is, for the most part, yes- humans can safely eat their pets\u2019 food\u2026 but there are some important caveats which we\u2019ll get into. For the long…(more<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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