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What you didn't know about the Village Blacksmith
What you didn’t know, about the Village Blacksmith… In the early part of human history, blacksmith shops were normally on the outskirts of the villages or towns, The towns folk believed they were dealing in witchcraft or the dark arts because they used fire to make weapons, tools and utensils out of something that came from the earth. Include the fact that the blacksmith smithy was dark except for the hot forge fire and a couple windows covered in soot.
By Daniel Bell5 years ago in FYI
Darkside of GMOs - Food Industry
GMOs are one of the most controversial areas of science. Genetic engineering is used in many fields, but even the medical applications like GM insulin are widely accepted. The debate heats up when it comes to food and agriculture. Why is that? Why is the same thing treated so differently? Let's try to get to the bottom of this and explore the facts, the fears and the future of GMOs.
By Zeeshan Mushtaq Lone5 years ago in FYI
Talking to the Dead
Local lore says it was a cold winter night in 1847 when two young farm girls from Hydesville, New York plotted to scare the wits out of their mother by making ghost noises. The young pranksters were Maggie and Kate Fox. The prank went so far that by March 31st, 1848 a nationwide spiritualism movement was born.
By Laura DeRue5 years ago in FYI
Dinosaurs: The Earth's GOAT
The Stegosaurus lived longer before the Tyrannosaurus Rex than the T-Rex lived before us. Think about the implications of that for a minute. Stegosaurus roamed the earth around 150 million years ago in the late Jurassic period. That was already the second geologic period of the dinosaurs. (The Triassic kicked off 100 million years before ol' Stegs popped up). T-Rex didn't appear until the end of the Cretaceous period 85 million years later. And then us homo sapiens, the planet's snot-nosed Gen-Zers, rolled in less than three hundred thousand years ago, 65 million years after the final episode of Dinosaurs. Even including Neanderthals and other hominids only gets us about half a million years closer. If you go with the broadest possible definition and say mammals, our species has only been on top since well after the dinosaurs got meteored.
By William Reid5 years ago in FYI
The "Cottage-Core" side of TikTok and the issues of Diversity
"A palace cannot make you rich but a cottage in the woods can." — Mehmet Murat Ildan Unless you have been living under a rock, you may have heard or seen content from TikTok, an app that has been widely used around the globe. From small businesses to celebrities, everyone has either used it for fun, to create their own form of art or have at least tried promoting their business on the app.
By nostalgia.radio🪲5 years ago in FYI
10 Unsolved Mysteries - Can you solve them?
Friends, no matter how much science and medicine has progressed so far, but our world is still full of many mysteries that are yet to be solved. We have brought some 10 secrets to you by sorting some of them. Lets know about them:
By Zeeshan Mushtaq Lone5 years ago in FYI
It's that time- St. Paddy's Day has arrived!
Saint Patrick’s Day is right around the corner. Or as we call it- St. Paddy’s Day. Rivers are going to be dyed green. 5k and 10k’s of little green men and women wearing top hats and tutu’s will be held during the month. Wal-Mart started selling ‘Pinch me, I am Irish’ shirts on Valentine’s day. And bars are receiving their shipment of extra glasses from Amazon in anticipation of the biggest holiday for beer. I am already planning my meal of Corned Beef and Cabbage with Soda bread- which is currently all on sell at Fred Meyer’s if you are interested.
By Rose Loren Geer-Robbins5 years ago in FYI
Strange Origins of the Jack-in-the-box
For many, the jack-in-the-box is known as an amusing and harmless children’s toy, but its origins often convey a much darker story. To the casual observer the object is usually regarded as consisting of a clown rigged to a coiled spring that pops out for an entertaining display. However original jack-in-the-boxes actually contained a very particular variety of joker, augustes. Whilst most clowns don a face of white makeup, often attired in pointy hats and ruffled collars, augustes have the large red noses and are clothed in oversized trousers, often with squirty flowers in their buttonholes. While the Jack character certainly looks like a comical figure, his purpose wasn’t always amusement.
By M.R. Cameo5 years ago in FYI
