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My browser history indicates I use Google for several hundred different Internet searches each day, but this rarely happens through the actual Google home search page — so I feel lucky to notice today’s darling Google Doodle.

The occasion today is laughably obscure — the 216th anniversary of the first parachute jump — but that’s OK, because someone clearly just wanted to make a fun little parachute game. Once the parachutist goes up, use the arrow keys to control where he goes. (See if you can land him on the boat.)

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The LA Times has more on the history of French parachutist Andre-Jacques Garnerin, who made a dizzying descent from 3,200 feet at a Paris exhibition in 1797.

Yesterday’s doodle celebrating the 88th birthday of Celia Cruz also caught my attention. And the recent pinata game for Google's 15th birthday is a fun one, too. You can see the whole archive of increasingly elaborate Google doodles here.