Amazing fact about the invention of the lighter
The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
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- When was the first transatlantic radio signal sent?
“In 1901, Guglielmo Marconi received the first transatlantic radio signal, the Morse code letter "S," sent from England to Newfoundland.”
Reference: Encyclopaedia Britannica
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What's on channel 1?
In the 1940s, the FCC assigned television's Channel 1 to Mobile Services (two-way radios in
taxicabs, for instance) but did not re-number the other channel assignments. That's why your TV
set has channels 2 and up, but no channel 1.
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.