In 1914, Abram Pheil paid $400 (which would be $8,500 today) for a 23-minute plane ride

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Researchers for Sleep and Consciousness studied mice to observe what happens to their brains while they sleep

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The inventor of the tricycle personally delivered two to Queen Victoria. She also asked inventor James Starley to come with delivery

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A woman called the police when her ice cream ran out of toppings

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Uncle Ben’s rice was air-dropped to World War II troops. Bug-free instant rice was a big asset during World War II, and processed rice was air-dropped to American and British troops

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The British Empire was at its most powerful in the 1920s, when it controlled 23 percent of the world's population and approximately 13.7 million square miles of territory, or almost a quarter of the earth's land area

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Studies have shown that turtles actually communicate at an extremely low frequency, which sounds like "clicks, clucks and hoots" that can only be heard through a hydrophone

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In 1928, bacteriologist Alexander Fleming discovered Penicillin, but before calling it Penicillin, he called it "mold juice". It became the world's first antibiotic

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May 20, 1873, is the “birthday” of blue jeans. It was the day Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis, received a patent for the process of adding metal rivets to men's denim work pants

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At the beginning of every film made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the legendary lion roars at the audience. In the 1980s, the company registered a "sound mark" with the US Patent and Trademark Office

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