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Mac OS X Easter Egg - Dates of History

1. Open "Terminal.app" located in the Applications > Utilities folder on your Hard Drive.

2. At the prompt paste the following: cat /usr/share/calendar/calendar.history

This is a list of significant dates in history, one for every day of the year.

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Contributed By:	Anonymous on 03-16-2006
Reviewed By:	Axel, MorPH

Special Requirements: Terminal (Built into Mac OSX)

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macsareneat writes:

It is also interesting to note that throughout the list, dates of events in Lord of the Rings are interspersed, Such as Gandalf visits Bilbo on 3/18. Funny stuff.

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