October 22 is:
Wombat Day in Australia
National Nut Day
Per Foodimentary.com
Cashews are in the same plant family as poison ivy and poison sumac and their itchy oil is contained almost entirely in the shell of the nut.
Pistachios get their green color from the same pigment (chlorophyll) that lights up your spinach, kale and other fabulous plant based foods.
Walnuts enjoy a distinction like no other — they are the only nut that has omega-3 fatty acids.
A 2008 study found that almonds (and specifically the fat in almonds) may play a role in increasing healthy bacteria in the gut.
Brazil nuts are high in selenium, a mineral that has been found to be effective in the fight against prostate cancer.
October 22, 1692 – Last hanging for witchcraft in the United States. In the Salem Witch Trials, the first to be tried was Bridget Bishop of Salem who was found guilty and was hanged on June 10. Thirteen women and five men from all stations of life followed her to the gallows on three successive hanging days. The Salem witch trials of 1692 to ’93 might be among the most famous in history but they were by no means alone—nor was the paranoia that surrounded the grim witch hunts of the 17th and 18th centuries unique to New England. Witch trials were being carried out all across Europe right through to around 1800.
Sam Houston was inaugurated as first elected President of Republic of Texas in 1836.
“The Great Anticipation” (October 22, 1844): Millerites, followers of William Miller, anticipated the end of the world in conjunction with the Second Advent of Christ. The following day became known as the “Great Disappointment.”
Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen was an American homeopath, ear and eye specialist and medicine dispenser. He was convicted in 1910 at the Old Bailey of poisoning his wife, Cora Henrietta Crippen, and was subsequently hanged at Pentonville Prison in London. He was the first criminal to be captured with the aid of wireless telegraphy.
U.S.A. First Income Tax, 1914 : Congress pass the Revenue Act mandating the first tax on incomes over $3,000.
Bank robber Charles “Pretty Boy” Floyd was shot to death by federal agents at a farm in East Liverpool, Ohio in 1934.
Jean-Paul Sartre, one of the key figures in the philosophy of existentialism, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1964, but turned down the honor. Once said “If you are lonely when you are alone, you are in bad company.”