Everything Everywhere Daily: History, Science, Geography & More

One of the most common food items consumed today are cruciferous vegetables. Even if you aren’t familiar with the term, you almost certainly have consumed some before, and there is a good chance you do so on a regular basis.  What many people don’t know is that these vegetables are actually rather modern.  Early neolithic humans never ate broccoli, cabbage, or Brussels sprouts because humans inven...

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Whaling is something that humans have engaged in for thousands of years. For most of that time, indigenous groups conducted it on a small scale for survival purposes. Over time, whaling became commercialized, the annual whale harvest exploded, and whaling became a cornerstone of the early industrial revolution.  Alas, it couldn’t last forever. Learn more about whaling, its rise, and its fall, on t...

Once every 450,000 years or so, the Earth undergoes a radical transformation.  The planet’s magnetic field will literally flip. The North Pole becomes the South Pole and vice versa.  Despite the fact that we know this has happened many times in the Earth’s history, we really don’t know what would happen if the poles were to reverse today. Learn more about when the Earth’s magnetic poles reverse on...

Every March, the United States experiences a period known as March Madness.  It is the time when college basketball teams compete for a national championship.  The process of crowning a national champion is a months-long process where teams vie for a chance to make the national tournament.  From there, in theory, every team that makes the big dance has a shot at becoming a champion. All you have t...

All of you are familiar with the ABCs. It is one of the very first things that children are taught. Not only are they taught the letters that comprise the alphabet, but they are also, usually at the same time, taught the order of the alphabet.  The order of the alphabet is something that is so ingrained that most of us usually don’t even think about it. Yet, if you think about it, the order of the...

In the summer of 1863, after two years of war, Confederate General Robert E. Lee felt it was possible to swiftly end the conflict by taking the fight to the Union.  Up until this point, almost all of the fighting had taken place in Virginia. Lee felt that by moving to the north, he could achieve several objectives that would lead the Union to seek peace. His march to the north resulted in the larg...

The 19th century was one of rapid technological advancement.  Of all of the innovations to come out of this century, and there were many, perhaps none was more important than that of the telephone.  The telephone radically changed communications, allowing personal communications over long distances.  Despite what many people are often told, this invention wasn’t simply the genius of one man, but w...

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, a war erupted in the world of video technology. Two competing video tape formats fought to gain supremacy in the market. In the end, one format crushed the other and was left as the victor. However, legend holds that the inferior format was actually the victorious one.  Learn more about Betamax vs. VHS videotape wars and if the worse technology actually won on th...

In 1869, the world was shocked by a discovery that was made outside of the town of Cardiff, New York.  Two workers discovered what was claimed to be the remains of a 10 foot tall, petrified human being.  The claim set off a fiery debate between those who thought it was proof of the Bible and those who just thought it was a long lost statue.  It turned out, neither group was correct.  Learn more ab...

For as long as humans have been watching the night sky, they noticed that every so often, during a full moon, the moon would briefly go dark, or at least change color.  They often created mythical explanations for the event. Eventually, this ancient people began to record its occurrences and were able to calculate when it would happen.  As we learned more about the universe, the explanation for th...

One of the most devastating weapons in the medieval world was the crossbow.  It evolved from early hand-held projectile weapons into a powerful tool of warfare that shaped battles for centuries. It was one of the few weapons powerful enough to stop a fully armored knight. Yet, despite its power, it wasn’t necessarily the most powerful ranged weapon on a battlefield and when something better came a...

Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, known to history as Claudius, was the fourth Emperor of Rome.  Of the emperors that came before him and all those who came after him, he was the most unlikely of emperors.  Up until the moment he became emperor, no one during his entire life seriously thought of him as emperor material. When he became emperor, he surprised everyone.  Learn more about E...

In the 18th century, a French astronomer who was a regular comet hunter kept finding things in the sky that weren’t comets, but they also weren’t stars or planets.  He created a list of these objects, not because he was trying to catalog the night sky, but rather to help other comet hunters avoid these common objects. It turned out his list consisted of some of the most incredible objects inside a...

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In 1965, the world’s first full enclosed sports facility, the Houston Astrodome, was opened to the public.  The Astrodome itself was a marvel of engineering, but because it was enclosed, the grass that was initially planted soon died.  It was replaced with artificial grass, which was basically a synthetic carpet that looked like grass but played and behaved totally differently.  Today, the next ge...

For thousands of years, humans have used the power of water to do work for them.  At first, it was very simple, then it gradually evolved to more complex and more efficient devices to harness the power of water.  Eventually, we were able to harness some of the world’s largest rivers to produce incredible amounts of power for millions of people.  Despite the advanced hydropower systems that exist t...

After the First World War in France, many generals thought that the end of the war was really just a pause before another war began. They wanted to make sure that the next time war broke out with Germany, they were ready and could never be invaded again.  To that end, they created a series of defensive fortifications they believed to be impregnable.  Spoiler alert: it didn’t work.  Learn more abou...

Before the US Civil War, a group of abolitionists didn’t just sit around passively to wait for the end of slavery to arrive.  They took matters into their own hands. They set up a clandestine network that operated over multiple states to bring escaped slaves to freedom.  Their network wasn’t a top-down organization, which centrally organized everything. Rather, it was one of the earliest examples...

Located in the Indonesian Archipelago, it is one of the newest countries in the world, Timor-Leste, or, as it's sometimes known in English, East Timor. While geographically very close, and pretty much surrounded by Indonesia, Timor-Leste has had a history very different from Indonesia.  Their histories diverged when they became colonized by different countries and came to a head in the late 20th c...

On May 16, 1929, 270 people assembled in the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel's Blossom Room.  They were there to honor the highest achievements in filmmaking over the last year. It was not broadcast on radio, was not recorded, and the entire event only took 15 minutes.  Those present on that day didn’t know it, but they were witness to the start of the most prestigious awards in the motion picture indus...

Over 300 years ago, humanity was in the early stages of what would be its greatest transformation in history. Around the world, there were new ideas that were just starting to take root.  That isn’t to say that all was great in the world, but seeds were planted that would bear fruit centuries later socially, politically, economically, scientifically and technologically. Learn more about the world...

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In 1864, Elizabeth Jane Cochran was born in Cochran Mills, Pennsylvania.  At the age of 18, she began a career as a journalist writing under a pen name. During her career, she became a pioneer in both investigative journalism and travel writing.  She later became a novelist, ran an industrial factory, and was one of the leading voices for women’s suffrage in the early 20th century. Learn more abou...

Every month, or sometimes every quarter, governments around the world release economic statistics. Markets will often wait for the release of these statistics, and billions of dollars of investments will often hang on what these statistics reveal.  While the announcement of economic data will often make the news, many people aren’t aware of what these statistics actually mean. Often times they ref...