The Saturday Evening Postcarried the first automobile advert in a national magazine on the 31st of March 1900, in which the W.E. Roach Company of Philadelphia proclaimed they sold "Automobiles That Give Satisfaction".
Many major league baseball players, including Moises Alou, Jorge Posada, and Kerry Wood, have admitted that they pee on their own hands during baseball season to “toughen” their grip.
The world's first, um, 'call girls' were organised in Melbourne, Australia, in 1891. The owners of the brothel set up a system of ordering by telephone.
The world's first anti-influenza drug, Relenza, was invented in Australia by the Victorian College of Pharmacy, Monash University, and Biota Holdings in 1996.
Jackie Mitchell, a 17-year-old female pitcher for the AA Chattanooga Lookouts, once played the New York Yankees in an exhibition game and struck out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig in succession.
The world's first plastic bank notes were invented & used in Australia in 1988. They last a lot longer than conventional paper notes, and are also far more difficult to copy.
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