Amazing fact about the invention of the lighter
The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
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- What is the oldest surviving wooden wheel?
“The oldest known surviving wooden wheel, about 5,150 years old, was found in the Ljubljana Marshes in Slovenia.”
Reference: Smithsonian Magazine
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When was the wheel invented?
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