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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

\"founding-fathers-declaration-of-independence\"The Declaration of Independence Was Approved on July 2nd And Signed on August 2nd, So Why Is July 4th Independence Day?<\/a><\/p>\n

While it is often said that the Declaration of Independence was signed on July 4, 1776, this isn\u2019t actually correct. In fact, nobody signed it on the 4th. This is contradictory to Thomas Jefferson\u2019s, John Adams\u2019, and Benjamin Franklin\u2019s account of events. On top of their accounts, the public congressional record of events back their story. So how do we know it didn\u2019t happen this way?\u00a0To begin with, the Secret Journals of Congress that were eventually made public in 1821 paint a different story. They contain an entry stating, on August 2nd: \u201cThe declaration of independence being engrossed & compared at the table was signed by the Members.\u201d\u00a0Now if this was the only evidence, one might lean towards a typo in the journal and…(more<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\"john-ssebunya\"Real Feral Children of the Modern World<\/a><\/p>\n

In 1991 Millie Sseba was gathering firewood in the jungle near her village, when she came across a group of monkeys. One, in a tree, looked particularly odd. She looked closer\u2026and saw that it was a human boy. She ran back to her village and returned with a group of men who, after battling the monkeys, were able to capture the boy. They took him to their village and cared for him. He was badly malnourished, covered with sores, and had tapeworms. A few weeks later, he was taken to Paul and Molly Wasswa, a Ugandan couple who run an orphanage for destitute children. The boy was soon identified as John Ssebunya, the son of a man and woman who used to live in a nearby village.\u00a0The story of what had happened to him began to be pieced together. John himself was able to add to it when he eventually learned to speak. About a year before he was found with the monkeys, at the age of three or four (nobody knows his exact age), John saw his father shoot and kill his mother. He fled, fearing he would be killed…(more<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\"chicken-butts\"The Origin of the Expression “Guess What? Chicken Butt!”<\/a><\/p>\n

An appropriate response to nearly any rhetorical playground question from \u201cWhat\u2019s up?\u201d to \u201cGuess what?\u201d, \u201cchicken butt\u201d has been an important part of the childish lexicon for many decades.\u00a0The retort\u2019s origins are usually speculated to have come from a practice common to street merchants when they would call out what they were offering and how much it cost. One particularly delicious item was advertised as:\u00a0Chicken butt! Five cents a cut!\u00a0Butt, in this sense didn\u2019t mean the back end of the bird, but, rather, its shoulder. A long time ago, butchers would pack less desirable cuts, like shoulders, into barrels, either to store them or ship them. Barrels like these had been called butts since the late 14th century, after the Modern French word for a barrel or wineskin, botte and the Latin buttis (for cask). Over time, the term was applied to the cuts of meat within…(more<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\"j-p-morgan\"J.P. Morgan and His Giant, Knobbly, Purple Nose<\/a><\/p>\n

John \u201cJ.P.\u201d Morgan is a name synonymous with business. A man who was so respected and influential in the spheres of business and finance that the appearance of the guy on the Monopoly board, Rich Uncle Pennybags, is thought to be based on him. But rather than talk about how Morgan accumulated his truly vast amount of wealth, how he was such a powerful force in the world of finance that he once rescued the United States government from bankruptcy in 1893; or that time in 1907 when he managed to stop cold the Wall Street Panic of 1907 which might have otherwise plunged the U.S. into a Depression (and the result of which inspired the creation of the Federal Reserve System, for when someone like J.P. Morgan wasn\u2019t around to fix the situation); or that time he financed Thomas Edison in the invention of a commercially viable light bulb and helped form General Electric; or any of the other of his countless history changing business conquests, no, we\u2019re going to talk about something much less well known about this admiral of industry- his giant nose.\u00a0Now given the list of accomplishments attributed to Morgan…(more<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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