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From the first Ring cycle to the first woman Marine and a whole lot of famous birthdays, August 13 has been quietly showing off.

On August 12, a famous dinosaur got dug up, North Korea threw a beer party, and elephants got their own worldwide holiday.

On this day we celebrate the birth of hip hop, America's biggest shopping cathedral, and a Japanese holiday devoted entirely to mountains.

On this day the Louvre opened, a warship immediately sank, and the internet gained a billionaire lip-kit mogul.

On this day we got a fireproof bear mascot, hockey's most heartbreaking trade, and a nation that turned a breakup into a national holiday.

On this day the Beatles snapped their most-copied photo, a zeppelin circled the globe, and dads everywhere earned their moment.

The internet preserves humanity's finest moments of absolute brain failure, and these two pictures are exhibit A and B in the case against our collective intelligence.

Municipal workers have one job when it comes to signage, and somehow they've managed to mess it up in the most spectacular ways possible.

On this day we celebrate a road-trip pioneer, a very cold swim, an early computer, and the birthdays of some athletic overachievers.