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1976 – Bruce Jenner wins Gold in the decathlon at Montreal

July 30, 2009

Born on October 28, 1940 in Mount Kisco, New York, Bruce Jenner attended Graceland College on a football scholarship, until a knee injury forced him to reassess his priorities. With the encouragement of his coach, he took up the decathlon, and represented the US in the event at the Munich Olympics in 1972. He...
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1937 – Spam is first released

July 5, 2009

Spam didn’t used to have anything to do with enlarging your penis or getting cheap medicines of dubious quality. It was originally the name of a certain kind of meat, although the ‘dubious quality’ part is well-enshrined in urban legend – known backronyms devised for it include “Something Posing As Meat”, “Stuff, Pork and...
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