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What did you learn today?
Today I learned something that I took for granted. I ask that if you respond to this thread you add what you learned and how you came to learn it.
I was surfing about the news items and I came across a piece on a 22 lb lobster...
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and in that bit it said...
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Based on how long it typically takes a lobster to reach eating size about five to seven years to grow to a pound Bubba may be 100 years old.
That would make the crustacean older than Warner Bros. (1907), the Boy Scouts (1910) and the states of Arizona and New Mexico (1912), not to mention the first commercial radio station (1920), television (1927) and computers (1943).
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I didn't realize that NM and AZ were admitted into the union as late as 1912, so I looked up when Hawaii was admitted to the US, which it became a state in 1959.
What I learned today:
Hawaii was NOT a state when Pearl Harbor was bombed Dec 7, 1941.
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