Amazing fact about the invention of the lighter
The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
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- What was the second disease ever eradicated?
“Rinderpest, a deadly cattle disease, was declared eradicated in 2011, the second disease ever wiped out after smallpox.”
Reference: Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
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Who created the first vaccine?
In 1796, Edward Jenner created the first vaccine by infecting a boy named James Phipps with cowpox, which protected him from smallpox.
Necessity is the mother of Invention, but chocolate can work too.
The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.