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That step turned into the Messerschmitt Me 262, the first operational jet fighter. The Me 262 was conceived in 1938, though it wouldn't fly under full jet power until mid-1942.

Hagenbeck first tested his ideas on human beings. Before there were zoos, there were menageries, collections of living animals that were housed in the gardens of European royalty.

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It was, in fact, anything but simple. The first hurdle, as Purdum writes, was a fear that audiences would not welcome an interracial couple or Arnaz’s accented English into their homes every week.

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He also met Steve Jobs on his tour, who showed him the first few reels of a movie he was working on called Toy Story. “I’ve never had an aptitude for animation—I don’t like it,” Diller says.