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1962 — Cuban Missile Crisis
October 1962 — 13 days that nearly led to nuclear war. The US discovered Soviet missiles in Cuba. The Kennedy-Khrushchev standoff ended in compromise. This was the most acute crisis of the Cold War.
History
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Agent 62 — code in various systems
Base62 encoding uses an alphabet of 62 characters (0–9, a–z, A–Z). This system is used to create short URLs (bit.ly and similar). The number 62 is the base of the URL shortening number system.
Culture
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Samarium — element #62
Samarium (Sm) is a rare-earth metal with atomic number 62. Samarium-cobalt magnets are among the strongest permanent magnets, used in headphones, motors, and guitar pickups.
Science