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| | Facts | - A rocket-like device can be traced back to Ancient Greece when a flying steam-powered pigeon was built out of wood.
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Comment On This Amusing Fact - Adolf Hitler was one of the people that was responsible in the creation of the Volkswagen Beetle. He came up with the idea of producing a car that was cheap enough for the average German working man to afford.
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Comment On This Amusing Fact - Braces were first invented by Pierre Fauchard in 1728. The braces were made by a flat strip of metal, which was connected to the teeth by thread.
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Comment On This Amusing Fact - Clarence Crane the inventor of "Crane's Peppermint Life Savers" sold his rights to the popular candy for less than three thousand dollars.
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Comment On This Amusing Fact - During one seven year period, Thomas Edison obtained approximately three hundred patents. In is whole life he obtained over one thousand patents.
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Comment On This Amusing Fact - Edwin Armstrong invented FM radio in 1933. The first men to use FM radio to communicate with Earth from the moon's surface were named Edwin Aldrin and Neil Armstrong.
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Comment On This Amusing Fact - In 1871, horse cars were introduced. It was simply a car that was pulled over a track by a horse.
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Comment On This Amusing Fact - In 1905, Chapman and Skinner in San Francisco invented the first portable electric vacuum.
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Comment On This Amusing Fact - In 1936, the first practical helicopter was invented. It was the German Focke-Wulf Fw 61.
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Comment On This Amusing Fact - In 1955, only 330 Volkswagen Beetle's were sold at a price of $1800 each in the United States.
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Comment On This Amusing Fact - In 1967, the IMAX film system was invented by Canadian Ivan Grame Ferguson to premier at Expo 67.
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Comment On This Amusing Fact - In the 1920's, Q-Tips were invented by Leo Gerstenzang who got the idea after watching his wife clean their baby's ears with cotton stuck onto a toothpick.
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Comment On This Amusing Fact - In the late 1800's, washing machines and butter churners were sometimes powered by dogs walking on treadmills.
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Comment On This Amusing Fact - John Van Wormer invented paper milk cartons after dropping a bottle of milk one morning. The bottle broke spilling the milk everywhere. That annoyance was enough for Van Wormer to come up with the idea.
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