Margarine arrived in the US in the 1870s, causing a war with dairy farmers who falsely claimed it caused illnesses. The dairy industry also opposed coloring margarine yellow. By 1902, most states had imposed color limits, and some required it to be dyed pink, red, brown, or black. Six states have banned margarine altogether. Senator […]
The “eternal flame” on JFK’s grave has only been shut down twice in 55 years due to a group of Catholic schoolchildren accidentally dousing it with holy water and a flood damaging the transformer. JFK was the only Purple Heart recipient and Pulitzer Prize winner to be elected President, and donated his salary to charity. […]
Georges Lemaître, a Belgian mathematician and Catholic priest, proposed the Cosmic Egg theory in 1927, which was later confirmed by Edwin Hubble’s discovery of galaxies receding at high speed in 1929, leading to the Big Bang theory. Edwin Hubble usually gets top marks for the Big Bang theory, which suggests that the universe was born […]
