The earliest recorded case of a man giving up smoking was on April 5, 1679, when Johan Katsu, Sheriff of Turku, Finland, wrote in his diary "I quit smoking tobacco." He died one month later.

The risk of being struck by a falling meteorite for a human is one occurence every 9,300 years.

The first VCR was made in 1956 and was the size of a piano.

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