Today, in 1871, the man who would eventually invent the airplane, or one of them, Orvill Wright was born.
And the plan became such a ubiquitous tool, it helped make our planet smaller. Making us smaller made us realize we need to help one another, and today is also World Humanitarian Day.
Although, not humans, but a distant cousin, are the Orangutans, and it's International Orangutan Day.
Did you know that their population has almost halved in just 5 years?
Pretty sombering, and then I bet a perfectly timed comedian like Groucho Marx would have something to say to lift the mood.
Groucho died in 1977 (the year I was born) - he would have been 86.
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