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» The first flexible, rolled film for still photographs was introduced only about 4 years before the first motion picture was made.
» The first Harley Davidson motorcycle was built in 1903, and used a tomato can for a carburetor.
» The first manned spacecraft to be launched was the Soviet’s Vostok 1, which left Earth in 1961.
» The first parking meter was installed in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, in 1935.
» "MIDI" stands for Musical Instrument Digital Interface. It is a standard means of sending digitally encoded information about music between electronic devices, often between synthesizers and computers.
» Time magazine named the computer its "Man of the Year" in 1982.
» A 1999 survey of 25,500 standard English-language dictionary words found that 93 percent of them have been registered as dot-coms.
» A 2001 study conducted by PC Data and Information Resources Inc. showed that greeting cards, soup, breakfast cereal, and Imodium were among the most popular package goods bought online.
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