First commemorative coin in U.S. history: The 1892 Columbian Exposition half-dollar, marking the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus’s discovery of the Americas.
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In 1882, Australian Hugh Victor McKay created the first commercial combine harvester called the Sunshine Harvester. George Stockton Berry later created the steam powered combine harvester.
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In the 1970’s, the Department of Defense created a programming language called ‘Ada’. It was named after 19th century mathematician Ada Lovelace. It is still in use today in the operations of real time systems.
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To make your pineapple softer and juicier, keep it at room temperature for 1 or 2 days before cutting.
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Wedding rings are often placed on the third finger of the left hand because ancient Egyptians believed the vein in that hand (which the Romans called the “vein of love”) ran directly to the heart.
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Brazil couldn’t afford to send its 69 athletes to Los Angeles for the Summer Olympics in 1932, so they put them on a ship with 50,000 sacks of coffee and sold the beans at different ports along the way.
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