Amazing fact about the invention of the lighter
The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
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- When was the first mobile phone call?
“Motorola engineer Martin Cooper made the first handheld mobile phone call on April 3, 1973, calling a rival at Bell Labs.”
Reference: Smithsonian Magazine
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