Geeky tidbits that we find interesting and hope you will too.
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1475 – Michelangelo Buonarroti is born in Caprese, Italy
1899 – Bayer registers “Aspirin” as a trademark.
1918 – US naval boat “Cyclops” disappears in Bermuda Triangle
1950 – Silly Putty goes on sale in the US
1964 – Cassius Clay joins the Nation of Islam and is renamed “Muhammad Ali” by its leader Elijah Muhammad.
1985 – Yul Brynner appears in his 4,500th performance of “The King & I”
1992 – The Michelangelo computer virus begins to affect computers.
1992 – The last episode of “The Cosby Show” aired. The show had been on since September of 1984.
1997 – Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II launched the first official royal Web site.
2012 – Three Year Old McNugget Sells for $8,100 on eBay
2015 – The NASA space probe Dawn entered orbit around the protoplanet Ceres in the asteroid belt.
2018 – World’s oldest message in a bottle found in Western Australia, thrown from German ship Paula 132 years ago (12 June 1886)
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