Daily Humor – January 31

On This Date: In 1930: 3-M first marketed Scotch tape. It was very similar to other tape, and in fact could only be told apart by its distinctive brogue.

Daily Humor – January 29

On This Date: In 1996: President Jacques Chirac announced a “definitive end” to French nuclear testing; which explains why Matthew Broderick never got to do the Godzilla sequel.

Daily Humor – January 28

On This Date: In 1887: A snowstorm in Montana produced the world’s largest recorded snowflakes at 15 inches wide by 8 inches thick. I’ll take their word for it, but I could swear I’ve met bigger flakes than that.

Daily Humor – January 27

On This Date: In 1967: More than sixty nations signed the Outer Space Treaty banning nuclear weapons in space. Per Section 77, Paragraph IV of the treaty, though, light sabers were still acceptable.

Daily Humor – January 26

On This Date: In 1962: The space probe Ranger 3 was launched to study the moon, but instead missed it by 22,000 miles. Off by that much, my guess is that Johnny Damon tried to throw it there.

Daily Humor – January 24

On This Date: In 1924: St. Petersburg, Russia, was officially renamed
Leningrad, an action which immediately bankrupted the pre-existing local post card industry.

Daily Humor – January 23

In 1996: The first version of the Java programming language was released, with the only system bug being that all it knew how to do was ask for coffee.

Daily Humor – January 22

On This Date: In 1506: The first contingent of 150 Swiss Guards arrived at the Vatican- carrying with them the cutest, most versatile knives you ever saw.

Daily Humor – January 21

On This Date: In 1677: In Boston, Massachusetts, a smallpox pamphlet became the first medical publication in America. Regarding smallpox, it provided the best medical treatment of its time; advising readers to “not get it.”

Daily Humor – January 20

On This Date: 1809: William MacLure published the first book on geology in the United States. One reviewer said he was able to get through it, but there were some rocky parts to it.