Kleenex tissues were originally intended for gas masks.
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Mr. Rogers always mentioned out loud that he was feeding his fish because a young blind viewer once asked him to do so. She wanted to know the fish were OK.
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One of the earliest Father’s Day cards dates back roughly 4,000 years. Elmesu, a Babylonian youngster, carved a card out of clay to “wish his father good health and long life.”
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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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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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Canoeing was originally a form of long distance transportation in North America, the Amazon basin and Polynesia, as well as many other countries.
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The first mention of a pen with ink reservoir came in 973 in the region of northwest Africa by Ma’ād al-Mu’izz. He wanted a pen that didn’t get his hand messy.
