What's hot and trending today, ten years ago, and during the Pleistocene

What's hot and trending today, ten years ago, and during the Pleistocene

According toBuzzfeed, these are some of the stories going viral right now:

Thursday, November 18, 2010:

Sword Swallower Downs 100-Year-Old Museum Exhibit

Was Tony Parker Cheating?

Erin Barry: Tony Parker's Texting Partner

How to Predict If You'll Get Divorced (Ed. Note: If you're texting with Tony Parker, chances go up)

Report: Tony Danza Yells at Priest During Funeral

Thursday, May 28, 1998 (Unfortunately, Buzzfeed, founded in 2006, did not exist then; however, by surveying other resources, we know that these were the stories going viral that day):

Gingrich Jabs Clinton

V^%&*a! (the little blue pill which I'm not allowed to say on ArticlesBase - thank you)

Daimler-Benz AG to Acquire Chrysler

V^%&*a!

iMac Does Not Have Floppy Drive (What?!?)

InterMilan Tops Lazio of Rome for UEFA Title

56k Modem Becoming Standard

Tuesday, April 14, 1903:

Kishinev Pogroms: Kill the Jews

Lunar Eclipse!

How to Predict If You'll Get Typhoid

Landslide in Canada

Immigrants Flooding America (WTF?)

Thursday, September 30, 1756:

Leap Year! (Months Ago But Still Feels Great)

Fort Oswego Falls to the French

What If the Conflict That Just Started Lasted, Say, Seven Years? If It Did, Will We Call It the 'Seven Years War'?

They're Growing Something Called a 'Potato' in Prussia. (Pronunciation Help, Please?)

Still Recovering From First-Ever St. Patrick's Day Celebration, at Crown and Thistle Tavern in NYC (It Rocked!!!)

What's Up With Pennsylvania's Quakers?

Saturday, December 28, 942 (A.D.):

Normandy's William I Longsword Assassinated (Holy Shit!)

Pope Still Trying to End Feud Between Duke Alberic of Spoleto and King Hugh of Provence (Hugh Rock!)

Is the Medieval Warm Period Even Real?

Awesome Poet Pampa Composes 'Adipurna'

How to Predict If You'll Die From Ergotism (Eating Bread Made From Diseased Rye)

Something Called a 'Medical Experiment' Conducted to Find Most Hygienic Place to Build Hospital (Huge Pieces of Meat Hung in Various Places Throughout Baghdad, Observe Where Meat Decomposes Least Quickly . . . Build Hospital There!)

If You're European or Chinese, Why Does This Century Kind of Suck?

Thursday, Pleistocene (2,587,013 B.C.):

Again With the Glacial Cycles?

Is Someone Out There? Are You Following My Updates?

Continental Plates: Done Shifting

Please, Please, If You're Out There and Walking Upright, Ping Me!

How to Predict If You'll Get Stomped By a Woolly Mammoth

Neanderthals: Time to Say Goodbye?

Migration Overrated Tough, Too

Microsoft OS Delayed

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