Better Known

Twentieth Century In Reverse


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Do you ever have trouble remembering PIN numbers? Ivan Wise teaches you how: all you have to do is remember a hundred facts about the twentieth century and the exact year in which they happened.

Dolly the sheep https://dolly.roslin.ed.ac.uk/facts/the-life-of-dolly/index.html

Bob Beamon's long jump https://vault.si.com/vault/1968/10/28/the-long-long-jump

The climbing of Mount Everest https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/conquering-everest-22118304/

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