London's Pall Mall became the first street lit by gaslight in 1807!
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In 1982, a high school student from Los Angeles, California unscrambled the Rubik's Cube in 22.95 seconds.
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During World War 1, Harry Houdini took 1 year off performing to help sell war bonds and teach american soldiers how to escape from German handcuffs.
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A monk had once written over a book that contained information about calculus that was written by Archimedes in ancient Greece that could have made us 100 or even 1000 years more mathematically and technologically advanced.
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Grenades were invented in China over 1,000 years ago.
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In 1987 American Airlines saved $40,000 by eliminating one olive from its First Class salads.
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