This day in history: Did you know...

Friday, 7 November 2014

From Wikipedia's new and recently improved content:

... that other millers viewing the fully-automated flour mill designed byOliver Evans (pictured) could not appreciate its advantages?
... that South Africa has a hotline to report illegal parking in bays designated for disabled drivers?
... that Mumba Cave contains a large assemblage of archaeological evidence for the transition between the Middle Stone Age and Late Stone Age in East Africa?
... that Orange Is the New Black character Lorna Morello has been said to have "the most amazing accent on television"?
... that Italian artist Trento Longaretti was named after his dead sibling?
... that Big Girls Don't Cry is a nonfiction book that argues that "the women's liberation movement found thrilling new life" as a result of the 2008 U.S. presidential election?
... that there are rubber rooms below the launch pads at Kennedy Space Center?

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