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The first baseball caps were made of straw.
The first bomb dropped on Germany in WWII killed the only elephant in the Berlin zoo!
The first ever patent in the UK was Aaron Rathbone & Roger Burges, Map makers in 1618!
The first Ford cars had Dodge engines.
The first hard drive available for the Apple II had a capacity of only 5 megabytes.
The first household refrigerators cost about $16,000, in today's money!
The first patented condom was meant to be reused!
The first person to go over Niagara falls was Annie Edson-Taylor. She made the trip in a wooden barrel and survived!
The first product to have a bar code was Wrigleys gum!
The first programme shown on BBC2 was Play School
The first song played on Virgin Radio was Born to be wild by INXS!
The first telephone book was one page long and had only 50 names in it.
The first TV commercial showed a Bulova watch ticking onscreen for exactly 60 seconds.
The G in 'g-string'stand for groin.
The glue on Israeli stamps is certified kosher.
The hair of an adult man or woman can stretch 25 percent of its length without breaking.
The IRS processes more than 2 billion pieces of paper each year.
The lense of the eye continues to grow throughout a person's life.
The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as a substitute for blood plasma.
The longest word in the English language is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses!

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