1. The first TV commercial aired on July 1st, 1941, before a Brooklyn Dodgers-Philadelphia Phillies game. It was for the Bulova Watch Company.
2.
Harriet Tubman
and
Ronald Reagan
were alive at the same time. She died in 1913 when she was 91 years old . . . and he was born in 1911.
3. When Australia was colonized in 1788, the first currency they used was rum. And that lasted for more than a decade before they came up with a real type of money.
4. We call our grandparents’ brothers and sisters great uncles and great aunts, but technically that’s incorrect. We’re supposed to call them grand uncles and grand aunts.
Here is today’s bonus fact:
5. Canada is the only country to host an Olympics and not win a gold medal, when it hosted the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal. Canadian athletes only won five silvers and six bronzes.
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