Flashback Friday

The Beatles in 1957 - George is 14, John is 16 & Paul is 15 performing as Wedding Singers

Smart marketing move by American Airlines after the Kansas City Chiefs won the AFC championship: They created a flight from Kansas City to Las Vegas. The flight number is 1989. Which is one of Taylor Swift’s albums. The return flight from Vegas to Kansas City has the flight number 87. Travis Kelce’s number. Clever little hack to make headlines while the moment is big and take advantage of the Taylor Swift effect.

The illusions of time ⏳⌛️ Oxford University in England is older than the Aztec Empire. Oxford received its charter in 1249, while the Aztec Empire was founded in the 14th century. Cleopatra, the last pharaoh of Egypt, lived closer in time to the founding of Pizza Hut than to the construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza. Cleopatra lived around 30 BCE, while the Great Pyramid was built around 2560 BCE. The Tyrannosaurus rex lived closer in time to humans than to the Stegosaurus. T. rex existed about 68-66 million years ago, whereas the Stegosaurus lived around 155-150 million years ago. The first successful powered flight by the Wright brothers in 1903 occurred just 66 years before the moon landing in 1969. Harvard University was established in 1636, a century before the American Revolution and two centuries before the invention of the light bulb.

Judith Love Cohen was an American aerospace engineer who helped create the Abort-Guidance System that rescued the Apollo 13 astronauts. When she went into labor, she went to work. She took a printout of a problem she was working on to the hospital. She called her boss and said she finished the problem and gave birth to Jack Black