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The first baby carriage was constructed in New York by Charles Burton in 1848.
The oldest home in Australia is the MacArthur House in Parramatta, which was built in 1793.
Pistols used by American sailors in the Revolutionary War for boarding enemy vessels were equipped with bayonets.
The Chinese have used fingerprints on legal documents for over a thousand years.
In 1826, Captain Slash, a robber who had been terrorizing people in Northampton, England, kicked off his shoes into the crowd during his hanging because people had always told him he would die with his boots on.
Arthur Crean was the first member of the U.S. armed forces to be issued a service number. He was #1.
The Battle of Tanga aka The Battle of The Bees November 3-5 1914
What do you do when you're leading your troops and you get attacked by thousands and thousands of pissed off bees ? You drop your gun and run like hell.
The longest boxing match in history occurred in 1893 when Andy Bowen and Jack Burke fought for 110 rounds. It took 7 hours and 19 minutes and referee John Duffy called it "no contest" after both men were too dazed to continue.
The treasury door of Tewkesbury Abbey, England, is reinforced with strips of metal taken from the armor of knights slain in the Battle of Tewkesbury in 1471.
Calvin Graham (1930-1992)
Youngest American to serve in WWII
The first mention of a Christmas tree in American literature was in a story in the 1836 edition of The Token And The Atlantic Souvenir titled " New Year's Day."
Grand Vizier Kara Mustapha of Turkey had 3,000 wives. He was strangled on Christmas Day in 1683 for having failed to capture the city of Vienna.
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