Crocodiles have a membrane that holds their tongue in place on the roof of their mouth so it doesn’t move. This makes it impossible for them to stick it outside of their narrow mouths. That can be handy for the reptile when snapping its jaws shut rapidly. It wouldn’t want to accidentally snap its own tongue off when eating prey.
November 24, 1958 -
A precursor episode to the science fiction television series The Twilight Zone, The Time Element aired on this date as part of the Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse anthology series on CBS-TV.
Though not the pilot episode of Rod Serling's series, The Twilight Zone, it was Rod Serling's production that lead to The Twilight Zone TV series. Because TV viewers at the time were not used to the kind of surprise, twist endings that for which the show ultimately became noted (and which this episode featured), Desi Arnaz appeared on-screen after the episode was finished and offered his "explanation" of what "really happened."
November 24, 1965 -
NBC aired the musical special Frank Sinatra: A Man And His Music to honor Sinatra, on this date.
According to the April 1966 Esquire article Frank Sinatra Has a Cold by Gay Talese, Sinatra was suffering from a cold, when he started recording this special. If you pay close attention, you can see him wiping his nose with his hand while singing.
November 24, 1966 -
Captain Pike has an illusion, and you have reality. May you find your way as pleasant.
(The whole episode, unaltered episode is now behind various pay walls.)
This episode incorporate most of the unseen (at the time) pilot episode of Star Trek, The Cage, featuring Jeffrey Hunter, as Christopher Pike, captain of the USS Enterprise.
November 24, 1968 -
Diana Ross and The Supremes song Love Child hit No.1 on the US singles chart, their 11th No.1 in the US, on this date.
Motown founder Berry Gordy wrote this with staff songwriters Deke Richards, Pam Sawyer, R Dean Taylor and Frank Wilson. Instead of writing about love, they came up with a much more controversial song about a child born to unmarried parents.
November 24, 1972 -
Produced by Don Kirshner, the TV series In Concert debuts on ABC as a competitor to NBC's Midnight Special premiered on this date.
Guests on the first episode include Chuck Berry, Alice Cooper, Blood, Sweat & Tears, The Allman Brothers Band, and Poco. Alice Cooper’s appearance in the show caused the series to have their subsequent episodes sent to the networks in advance for approval before airing because Alice Cooper sort of freaked out the audience during their live performance.
November 24, 1988 -
That's very well lit for the bottom of a crater of a abandoned volcano at the bottom of the sea.
The first episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000, Invaders from the Deep, premiered on KYMA, in Minneapolis, Minnesota on this date.
November 24, 1996 -
Crowded House played their farewell concert, performing on the steps of the Sydney Opera House to a crowd of over 100,000 (with some estimates of 250,000 people in attendance) on this date.
In 2007, they get back together.
November 24, 2012 –
Gangnam Style by PSY became the most viewed YouTube video surpassing 808 million views on this date.
Park Jae-sang is a South Korean singer/rapper, who is better known by his stage name, PSY, which stems from the first three letters of the word psycho. PSY is popular in his home country for the satirical slant of his songs and humorous videos and stage performances.
Today's moment of Zen
Today in History:
November 24, 1740 -
William Duell was hanged for rape and murder on this date. A few hours later, whilst being prepared for dissection by medical students, he awakened.
Wow that must have freaked him out.
November 24, 1835 -
The provisional government of Texas authorized the creation of the Texas Rangers (Corps of Rangers) police force.
November 24, 1859 -
Though some intellectuals latched onto Darwin's work with great enthusiasm, it generally caused controversy and outrage among Victorian society and he was vehemently attacked and ridiculed by the church.
And depending on your point of view, either this is a seminal work in scientific literature and arguably the pivotal work in evolutionary biology or, you're a monkey's uncle (I certainly am, as my sister's four boys prove, time and again.)
November 24, 1874 -
Joseph Glidden was granted a patent (US patent no 157,124) for barbed wire on this date.
November 24, 1947 -
The House of Representatives votes 346 to 17 to approve citations of contempt against 10 Hollywood writers, directors, and producers. These men had refused to cooperate at hearings dealing with communism in the movie industry held by the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC).
The Hollywood 10, as the men were known, are sentenced to one year in jail. The Supreme Court later upheld the contempt charges. The fallout resulted in the famous Hollywood "blacklist," which was a list of movie industry professionals suspected of either being communists themselves or supporting communist activities.
November 24, 1963 -
The next day, November 25, the flag draped coffin containing the purported remains of the man, many Americans believed to have been John F. Kennedy was buried at Arlington National Cemetery. And on November 29, President Lyndon Baines Johnson appointed Chief Justice Earl Warren the head of a commission to investigate the alleged assassination of the person believed to have been John F. Kennedy.
Be grateful the CIA, the Knights Templar, the Rosicrucians, extraterrestrials, and the Children's Television Workshop don't give a damn about you.
November 24, 1966 -
The smoggiest day in the history of New York City occurred on this date, killing about 400 people.
The thick smog settled into the city, causing deaths from heart attacks and respiratory failure.
November 24, 1971 -
On Thanksgiving eve, DB Cooper boarded Flight 305 in Portland, Oregon, and demanded $200,000 with the threat of a bomb. He parachuted from a Northwest Airlines 727 with the money over the Cascade Mountains near Ariel, Washington, and was never seen again.
A packet containing $5,880 of the ransom money was found in 1980 on the north shore of the Columbia River, just west of the Washington city of Vancouver, but he's still is missing.
November 24th, 1991 -
Freddie Mercury (45) the lead singer of Queen died, just one day after he publicly announced he was HIV positive.
In 2013, Gigwise readers named Mercury the best frontman ever.
And so it goes
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1 comment:
Can we blame those long Minnesota winters for incubating things like MST3K? Perhaps these boys watched too much Canadian TV. In any case, we out here in the hustings wish the good Dr. well.
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