Ah, 2012. Different times.

2012 was one of the most recent years in the history of mankind. You may not remember what happened because it was a while ago, and you were probably busy. Here's a recap:

• Queen Elizabeth celebrated her Diamond Jubilee, marking 60 years of her serving as the British equivalent of the Philly Phanatic.
• Lonesome George, a Pinta Island Tortoise, died. He was the last of his species. Happy Friday!
• Felix Baumgartner fell out of a spacecraft to prove that he really likes Red Bull.
• Scientists created the first bionic melon.
• The world ended, just like those people who misunderstood the Mayan calendar said it would!
• Encyclopaedia Britannica finally discontinued printing, leaving millions of people wondering what they’ll reach for now when they want to squash a bug.
• CERN discovered a new particle that may confirm the existence of Higgs boson, but it didn’t host the Golden Globes so nobody cared.
• Usain Bolt ran so fast he reversed time. CERN is now using him in the Large Hadron Collider.
• The Giants beat the Patriots at Super Bowl XLVI, and everybody was very, very happy about that.
• There was a viral campaign that went Google on YouTube.

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