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june 3rd, 2025: The first version of JavaScript, the scripting language that allows web pages to be interactive, was developed by Brendan Eich for Netscape in 1995. When the Mozilla Foundation was spun out of the company a few years later... (1/3)

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june 2nd, 2025: When PepsiCo announced the Aunt Jemima brand would be renamed in 2020 due to its troubling history, a new name for it had yet to be decided. (1/2)

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june 1st, 2025: HAPPY PRIDE MONTH!!!!

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may 30th, 2025: The Six Flags amusement park chain derives its name from Six Flags Over Texas, the first Six Flags park opened. (1/3)

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may 29th, 2025: When the telegraph was invented, the first message to ever be sent across it were the words "What hath God wrought?"

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may 28th, 2025: 9 years ago today, a western lowland gorilla was shot to death at the Cincinnati Zoo after a three year old child fell into the animal's enclosure.

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may 27th, 2025: Of the citrus fruits available today, only 3 occurred in nature without human intervention: the mandarin, the citron, and the pomelo. Despite their ubiquity, oranges, lemons, grapefruits, and limes were all created by crossbreeding some combination of those 3 original fruits.

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may 26th, 2025: In 1928, the Gerber Products Company held a contest to find a face for its latest advertising campaign: canned baby food. (1/3)

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may 25th, 2025: The first tweet ever sent was, quite famously, "just setting up my twttr" by Jack Dorsey. A lesser known fact is that during the early prototyping phase of the platform, "just setting up my twttr" was an automated tweet that was sent upon account creation. (1/2)

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may 23rd, 2025: In 2001, over a month before Windows XP was officially launched by Microsoft, a copy of the operating system was leaked by the warez (in layman's terms, file sharing and piracy) group DEVILS0WN. More notoriously, it was leaked alongside a volume licensing key. (1/3)

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may 21st, 2025: Today is the day that 14 years ago, Harold Camping predicted The Rapture would take place, to wide publicity thanks to the $100 million that his company, Family Radio, had spent to spread the news. Camping would suffer a stroke that June and retire from the company that October.

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may 19th, 2025: In the United States, a tornado watch is distinct from a tornado warning. A tornado watch indicates that all the conditions are in place for a tornado to form, making the condition worth monitoring even if a tornado itself has not been spotted. (1/2)

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may 18th, 2025: In 2007, an analyst estimated that because one percent of Google searches go through the website's "I'm Feeling Lucky" button, which takes users straight to the first result of their search query, bypassing the results page and any opportunity for Google to show the user ads... (1/4)

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may 16th, 2025: In the early 2010s, a cooking program that aired in Portugal named Clube dos Cozinheiros used Rocket Jump Waltz from the Team Fortress 2 soundtrack as its theme music.

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may 14th, 2025: After losing much of their market share to Microsoft in the late 90s, the web browser developer Netscape Communications was bought by the internet provider AOL. AOL would proceed to become the largest company in the world through a merger with Time Warner... (1/3)

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may 13th, 2025: Included in Windows 95 was a track simply titled "clouds.mid." As the composer, Brian Orr, explained, it was written for use in an easter egg that showed the names of every member of the Windows 95 product team.

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may 11th, 2025: Over ten years ago, one Minecraft player named their account "MojangSucksDick." However, once Mojang made it possible to change a Minecraft account's name, an employee at the company changed the account to "NoWeDont."

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may 9th, 2025: The first Muppet show, Sam and Friends, premiered 70 years ago on this day.

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may 8th, 2025: The ceramic material on the inside of a spark plug is infamous for its ability to wreak havoc on tempered glass. Thus, the shattered remains of one may sometimes be referred to as "ninja rocks."

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may 7th, 2025: Following the passing of Adam West in 2017, the producers of Family Guy retired the character Mayor Adam West. Their initial idea to create a character succeeding him was to have Sam Elliott become the Mayor of Quahog, but the actor was initially hesitant. (1/2)

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may 5th, 2025: Goodbye, Skype! 👋

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may 4th, 2025: As the router opened its Routing Information Protocol and started routing the IPv4 packet, it asked the packet: "Are you TCP because your protocol is 6, or is your protocol 6 because you are TCP?" (1/3)

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may 3rd, 2025: Many in academia refer to starfish as sea stars, due their characteristic lack of any features that make a fish a fish. Despite this, each time a Wikipedia editor has requested the "Starfish" page be changed to a "Sea star" page, the proposal has been rejected.

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april 30th, 2025: HAPPY 80TH ANNIVERSARY TO THE DAY HITLER KILLED HIMSELF!!!!!

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april 29th, 2025: The exact text of a recipe is subject to copyright law in the United States. The wording used, any photographs included, and the precise way the recipe is expressed can all be copyrighted. However, ideas themselves cannot be copyrighted. (1/2)

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