The Most Iconic Inventions of the 2010s

Flappy Bird

The rise and fall of Flappy Bird was a doozy. This was a popular app that became extremely competitive among teenagers and young adults. It was almost as crazy as Angry Birds, and probably would have reached that level of fame before the developer took it off the market because people were getting too "addicted" to it, as the creator has said. Only ancient artifacts, such as an iPhone 5, would have something like this on it...

MoviePass

This was a deal that seemed too good to be true -- because it really should have been. MoviePass offered its customers to see one movie a day for the price of $9.99 per month. This was a totally unsustainable business model and it crashed and burned pretty quickly. It officially shut down in September of 2019. It did inspire Regal and AMC to create their own membership deals, though. They're not as good a MoviePass, but it's something!

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The More You Know

  • The 442nd Infantry Regiment, a largely Japanese American unit that served during WWII, did so while their families were held in internment camps. Their motto was "Go for Broke" and they were the most decorated unit in U.S. military history.
  • Dueling is legal in Paraguay, as long as both parties have been registered as blood donors.
  • The youngest parents in the world were aged 8 and 9.
  • Yosemite means "those who kill."
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Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.