Today in 1928, the Chillicothe Baking Company in Missouri began publicly selling something new: bread that had been sliced by a multi-bladed machine, and the world gained a new way to measure greatness. Plus: today in 2017, a meteor found a way to use Earth as a “slingshot” so alter its orbit and eventually orbit Jupiter.
‘Home of Sliced Bread’: A small Missouri town champions its greatest thing (Washington Post's Retropolis)
One express ticket to Jupiter, please (Phys.org)
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