Yorkies Totally Random Useless Facts ~ On This Day In: 1390 ~ Saw the First Trial for Witchcraft in Paris (Yorkied have been burnt at the stake without a trial or executioner lol) 1894 ~ The Steamship Wairarapa , en route from Sydney to Auckland, ran into Great Barrier Island. She was Travelling at Nearly Full Speed through Heavy Fog. Approximately 140 out of 230 People Aboard Lost Their Lives. Built in Scotland in 1882, the subsequent court enquiry suggested the ship had been sailed by Dead Reckoning (The process by which Yorkie navigated a car for many yrs...before buying a Life Saving Time Saving Smashing Tom Tom...Oh Aye) 1945 ~ The First Ballpoint Pen Went On Sale 57 yrs After It Was Patented (On this day in 2013 at 15.45 hrs Mine Was Put Down Ont Desk LoL) 1969 ~ The First computer-to-computer link was accomplished through ARPANET, forerunner of the Internet (And long may we be thankful cos me carrier pigeons kept getting lost as soon as they left Yorkshire O_0)
Posted on: Tue, 29 Oct 2013 16:55:06 +0000
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