odditudes-and-weirdities

Holidays today are about appreciating your thumbs, airbourne cow-milking, drinking wine, crab-stuffed flounder, batteries, and the discovery of dwarf planet Pluto: Cow Milked While Flying in an Airplane Day Crab-Stuffed Flounder Day Drink Wine Day Nation al Battery Day Pluto Discovery Day Thumb Appreciation Day On this date in 1930 a Guernsey cow named Nellie Jay was milked while flying on a plane. (This was probably more interesting when airplanes were new and doing anything in them was considered interesting.) Also on this date, Pluto was discovered by Clyde Tombaugh . NASA / Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory / Southwest Research Institute, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons