Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Various Events and Tidbits

-1930's 3M company invents scotch tape, known as cellulose tape.

- April 1930 Twinkies are invented by James Dewar, utilizing shortcake pans. The original filling what banana cream, but was changed to vanilla during WWII due to shortage of bananas.
-1930 meteorites strike the rain forests of Brazil. Eye witness accounts claim that the sun turned red, that darkness befell the land and white ash fell from the skies. A whistling sound could be heard as three fireballs struck the earth, the explosion of which could be heard hundreds of kilometer away. Many months went by yet the fires still raged.
-the above picture is from the 1908 Tunguska meteorite crash in Siberia, the Brazil crash is said to be its twin.

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