287 years ago today, Jacob Roggeveen discovered Easter Island.

 

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36 years (and almost a full day! sorry about that. Life gets in the way sometimes but this is officially still “today,” for about an hour on the East Coast of the US) ago today, the first portable cell phone call was made in New York City.

 

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