Smile of the Day For May 31, 2022: Martin Frobisher Mines Gold in Canada: Used to Pave the Streets of London

          On this Day: On May 31, 1578 Martin Frobisher sailed from Harwich, England to Frobisher Bay, Canada. Eventually he mined…

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Smile of the Day for May 30, 2022: The 1st Indianapolis 500

On May 30, 1911 the 1st Indianapolis 500 was held.  Ray Harroun driving a Marmon Wasp for Nordyke & Marmon Company comes out of retirement, and wins the inaugural event; his average speed: 74.602 mph (120.060 km/h). The Indianapolis 500, also formally known as the Indianapolis 500-Mile Race, or simply the Indy 500, is an annual automobile race held at Indianapolis Motor Speedway (IMS) in Speedway, Indiana, United States, an enclave suburb of Indianapolis. The event is traditionally held over Memorial Day weekend, usually the last weekend of May.

Smile of the Day For May 29, 2022: Automatic Pop Up Toaster

On May 29, 1919 Charles Strite filed a patent for the automatic pop-up toaster. In pop-up or automatic toasters, a single vertical piece of bread is dropped into a slot on the top of the toaster. A lever on the side of the toaster is pressed down, lowering the bread into the toaster and activating the heating elements. The length of the toasting cycle (and therefore the degree of toasting) is adjustable via a lever, knob, or series of pushbuttons, and when an internal device determines that the toasting cycle is complete, the toaster turns off and the toast pops up out of the slots.

Smile of the Day Monday May 23, 2022: Monty Python

On May 23, 1969, the BBC ordered 13 episodes of Monty Python's Flying Circus. Monty Python was born in May 1969, at the Light of Kashmir tandoori restaurant in Hampstead, where five Brits (Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin) and an American (animator Terry Gilliam) first sat down to discuss working together on a new BBC comedy series.