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If you have pets or small children, there may be a good reason to remove magnets from your house. Small, powerful magnets called “neodymium” magnets come in tiny shapes and sizes, but have incredible strength because their magnetization is saturated. If more than two of these magnets are accidentally swallowed, they are naturally magnetized toward each other inside the body, which can puncture and rip intestinal tissue and cause serious punctures and wounds. Since powerful magnets are hard to recycle, it’s best to give them away if you want to dispose of them.
Recycling scrap metal is an easy way to turn some old metal furniture, building supplies and other metallic items into cash. But not all metal is alike or worth the same amount. The simple test is to see if a magnet sticks to your metal recyclable. If it does, it’s ferrous metal, which is likely steel or iron. Ferrous metal is less valuable, but still very much recyclable. If the magnet does not stick, there is a good chance it’s a much more valuable material like copper, brass, bronze or stainless steel.
In 1929, Anne Frank was born in Holland. Although she died in a Nazi concentration camp late in the Second World War, her diary about her family's life in hiding in Amsterdam became world famous. She was 15 when she died of typhus at the Bergen-belsen camp in central Germany in early 1945.
In 1939, the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum was dedicated in Cooperstown, N.Y.
In 1944, a Second World War act of heroism earned Winnipeg gunner Andrew Mynarski a posthumous Victoria Cross. Rather than jump from a burning bomber over France, Mynarski tried to save a trapped crewmate. The 27-year-old Mynarski suffered fatal burns, but his comrade miraculously survived the crash.
In 1950, two agreements were signed in Ottawa by Canada and the United States to avoid double taxation of their citizens and to prevent income tax evasion.
In 1964, South African black nationalist leader Nelson Mandela and seven co-defendants were sentenced to life in prison for plotting to overthrow the country's white supremacist government. Mandela, who had been in custody