A US company cannot legally forbid you to talk about pay with your coworkers.
Women in ancient China were told that drinking hot mercury would prevent pregnancy. Which is kind of true, since drinking mercury can lead to organ failure and death, so those women definitely wouldn’t be carrying a child anytime soon.
Scorpions are incredibly resilient. Scientists have frozen scorpions overnight, left them in the sun the following day, and when thawed, the arthropod walked away unscathed.
When asked how they discovered the hallucinogenic properties of the plants used in the ayahuasca brew, many indigenous Amazonian people said they “received the instructions directly from plants and plant spirits”.
1911 - Winter Garden Theater opens at 1634 Broadway NYC
1923 - Belgian Senate rejects Dutch University in Ghent
1934 - Female Babe Didrickson pitches hitless inning for Phila A's in exhibition game against Brooklyn Dodgers
1958 - Clandestine Burasi Bizim Radio (communist) begins transmitting
1968 - LBJ signs a bill removing gold backing from US paper money
1999 - 19th Golden Raspberry Awards: An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn wins
1882 - René Coty, Le Harve France, president of France (1953-58)
1908 - Frank Stanton, Muskegon Mich, broadcasting executive (CBS)
1925 - John D Erlichman, Politician (Nixon aide, Watergate)
1925 - James Pickles, judge
1926 - Ted Bessell, Flushing NY, actor (Don-That Girl, Frankie-Gomer Pyle)
1982 - Tomasz Kuszczak, Polish footballer
1351 - Mohammed ibn-Tughluq, sultan of Delhi India, dies
1929 - Ferdinand Foch, Marshal of France (WW I), dies at 77
1972 - Aad de Haas, Dutch religious painter/graphic artist, dies at 51
1990 - Jev Jasjin, Russian soccer goalie, dies at 60
1996 - Victor Zorza, journalist/Russian specialist, dies at 71
2013 - James Herbert, British horror writer, dies at 69
