It happened This week!

The Spice Girls’ debut single “Wannabe” was released in 1996— and rushed up the charts. To this day, it’s the bestselling single ever released by an all-female pop group. It’s also considered to be the “catchiest” pop song of the past 60 years, based on a study that found it took listeners an average of just 2.3 seconds to identify it! That’s quicker than hits by Elvis Presley, Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston and Lady Gaga!

A 30-year-old entrepreneur named Jeff Bezos founded Amazon.com in 1994. Initially called “Cadabra” (as in abracadabra!), the company —which started off being run out of Bezos’ garage in Bellevue, Washington— was renamed “Amazon” after Bezos’ lawyer misheard the site as “cadaver”!

A patent for the classic party game Twister was issued in 1969. The game had already become a craze after actress Eva Gabor played it with Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show. It proved to be so popular globally that it became a fad to try to set the record of most contestants in a game. That honor belongs to the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, where a whopping 4,160 people participated in a Twister marathon in 1987.

The Liberty Bell rang out in Philadelphia to announce the first public reading of the Declaration of Independence in 1776. In 2013, the U.S. Treasury featured the famous symbol of freedom and justice on the front of its newest $100 bill. The bell appears in an inkwell, and when you tilt the bill, the bell’s color changes from green to copper!

Disney’s The Fox and the Hound was released in theaters in 1981. The animated tale of a friendship between an unlikely pair— a wild fox and a bloodhound—featured the voices of Mickey Rooney and Kurt Russell and was the first Disney feature film to use computer graphics!