This day in history: Did you know...

Wednesday, 12 November 2014

From Wikipedia's new and recently improved content:

... that shrikethrushes (grey shrikethrush pictured) have calls described as "strong, mellow and beautiful"?
... that Jeff Banister overcame bone cancer in high school andparalysis in college to play in Major League Baseball?
... that Nik Wallenda's walk across Chicago was telecast with a 10-second delay in case something went wrong?
... that the volatile anhydrous compounds titanium nitrate and vanadyl nitratecan add nitro groups to organic compounds?
... that Amy Robertson is the only head coach in the 15-year history of the Indiana Hoosiers field hockey program?
... that in the Ganga puja festival, the Tripuri people of India build a temporary bamboo temple in a river stream and pray to be saved from epidemic diseases?
... that the 1967 horror film The Blood Demon was advertised in Rhode Island newspapers as Crimson Demon to remove the word "blood" from the title?

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