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 first product to have a bar code scanned was Wrigley's gum.

From 1939 to 1942, there was an undersea post office in the Bahamas.

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