Today's fact
Frog-eating bats identify edible frogs from poisonous ones by listening to the mating calls of male frogs. Frogs counter this by hiding and using short, difficult to locate calls.


On this day in history ...
1678 - Tycho Brahe 1st sketches "Tychonic system" idea of solar system
1741 - 1st magazine published in America (The American Magazine)
1867 - Blue Danube" waltz premiers in Vienna
1937 - Prince Valiant comic strip appears; known for historical detail
1937 - Los Angeles Rams formed (then in Cleveland)
1945 - Fire-bombing of Dresden begins; c. 50 -000 killed
1955 - Israel acquires 4 of the 7 dead sea scrolls
1960 - France explodes its 1st atomic bomb - in Algerian desert
1982 - Islander's Bryan Trottier scores five goals against the Fly