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Oregon is 1st state to tax gasoline (1 cent per gallon)
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The Band-Aid was invented in 1920 by Thomas Anderson and Johnson & Johnson employee Earle Dickson in Escondido
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Chemist Cyril Callister created the Vitamin B spread (vegemite)from brewer's yeast in 1922 and it first hit Australian supermarket shelves the following year.
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convertible car roofs were made in the late 1922.
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1924 winter olympics is also known as the I Olympic Winter Games. the first winter olympics was held in Chamonix France. in the winter oylimpics in 1924 there where 258 athletes (247 men and 11 women) from 16 nations, competing in a total of 18 events.
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The first person to examine whether freezing food might delay its deterioration died in the process. In March 1626, Francis Bacon, lawyer, Member of Parliament, wit and philosopher, was passing Highgate in north London. Observing the snow outside his carriage, he wondered if cold might delay the putrefaction of living tissue. He stopped his carriage immediately, bought a hen, and with his own hands, stuffed it with snow.
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Lionel Sternberger is the one who introduced the cheeseburger in 1926 at the age of 16, when he was working as a fry cook at his father's Pasadena, California sandwich shop,
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The film (Steamboat Willie) was first premiered in New York on Nov. 18, 1928 and was an instant hit. from the walt disney made many series of Mickey Mouse shortsn witch appeared within a matter of months
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Aschheim and Zondek described a test (known as the A-Z test) which identified the presence of hCG in urine. To test for pregnancy, a woman’s urine was injected into an immature rat or mouse. If the subject was not pregnant, there would be no reaction. In the case of pregnancy, the rat would show an estrous reaction (be in heat) despite its immaturity.
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The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression that took place mostly during the 1930s,