The Most Iconic Inventions of the 2010s

Pokemon Go!

Summer 2016: where everything seemed to be okay for once. Granted, kids were trespassing into people's yards and even onto train tracks to catch that Pokemon, but still, they were at least outside! Pokemon Go! used Augmented Reality technology for the player to project a Pokemon onto whatever their camera was pointing at. There were even "tournament" points at certain public parks and restaurants where users could meet up to battle their Pokemon. 

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The More You Know

  • In 1966 and 1967, soldiers testing Agent Orange in Canada were told the chemical was completely safe and sprayed it on each other to cool off.
  • Hippos have the largest mouths of any animal on land.
  • An 11-year-old is responsible for naming Pluto.
  • Portland was named by a coin flip. Had the coin landed the other way, the city would be known as Boston, Oregon.
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