20 years ago, there were only 130 websites, Google wasn't around, and you had to pay for an email account through an ISP.
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In 1918, a homing pigeon saved over 190 American soldiers by delivering a message to nearby support despite having been shot through the breast, blinded in one eye, covered in blood, and with a leg hanging on by just a tendon.
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Chunosuke Matsuyama, a Japanese Seaman, sent a message in a bottle in 1784 that his ship had wrecked. It washed up in 1935 in the village where he was born.
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'⸮' is a punctuation mark that was first proposed in the 1580s to denote sarcasm or irony.
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Sifrhippus was a species of horse about the size of an average duck and roamed North America 56 million years ago.
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Alligator snapping turtles can live for over 150 years. Scientists know this because some of the turtles had musket balls in their stomachs.
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The oldest glowing lightbulb was first switched on in 1901 and lives in fire stations in Livermore, CA. It is known as the Centennial Light.
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