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Bag-pipes were invented in Persia, not Scotland
“It was most likely a rather crude instrument comprised of reeds stuck into a goatskin bag. As civilization spread throughout the Middle East and into the Mediterranean lands, the people brought along their music.”
The word “hello” was invented because no one knew how to start a telephone call
“Over at the laboratories of Edison’s rival, Bell was insisting on “Ahoy!” as the correct way to answer the telephone. It was trounced by “hello,” which became the standard as the first telephone exchanges, equipped by Edison, were set up across the United States and operating manuals adopted the word.”
The first boomerang was found in Poland, not Australia
“The oldest Australian Aboriginal boomerangs are ten thousand years old… One boomerang that was discovered in Jaskinia Obłazowa in the Carpathian Mountains in Poland was made of mammoth’s tusk and is believed, based on AMS dating of objects found with it, to be about 30,000 years old.
High fives didn’t exist until 1977
“His hand was up in the air, and he was arching way back,” says Dusty Baker, now 62 and managing the Reds. “So I reached up and hit his hand. It seemed like the thing to do.”
The Rubik’s Cube wasn’t originally meant to be a toy
“Although it is widely reported that the Cube was built as a teaching tool to help Ernő Rubik’s students understand 3D objects, his actual purpose was solving the structural problem of moving the parts independently without the entire mechanism falling apart. He did not realize that he had created a puzzle until the first time he scrambled his new Cube and then tried to restore it.”
Baseball was first invented in England
“[Diaries found] showed the game was a well-established sport in the 18th Century and was played by men and women… played in the UK more than 20 years before American independence.” Don’t shoot me over this one…I’m just the messenger. (The Northern Rose wont like that)
Nazis invented the blow-up doll
“The project was meant to “counterbalance” the sexual desires of German troops and was considered “more secret than top secret”. Borghild (the name of the doll) aimed to reflect the beauty-ideal of the Nazis: white skin, fair hair and blue eyes.”
FACTS ABOUT INVENTIONS PART 2
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Bag-pipes were invented in Persia, not Scotland
“It was most likely a rather crude instrument comprised of reeds stuck into a goatskin bag. As civilization spread throughout the Middle East and into the Mediterranean lands, the people brought along their music.”
The word “hello” was invented because no one knew how to start a telephone call
“Over at the laboratories of Edison’s rival, Bell was insisting on “Ahoy!” as the correct way to answer the telephone. It was trounced by “hello,” which became the standard as the first telephone exchanges, equipped by Edison, were set up across the United States and operating manuals adopted the word.”
The first boomerang was found in Poland, not Australia
“The oldest Australian Aboriginal boomerangs are ten thousand years old… One boomerang that was discovered in Jaskinia Obłazowa in the Carpathian Mountains in Poland was made of mammoth’s tusk and is believed, based on AMS dating of objects found with it, to be about 30,000 years old.
High fives didn’t exist until 1977
“His hand was up in the air, and he was arching way back,” says Dusty Baker, now 62 and managing the Reds. “So I reached up and hit his hand. It seemed like the thing to do.”
The Rubik’s Cube wasn’t originally meant to be a toy
“Although it is widely reported that the Cube was built as a teaching tool to help Ernő Rubik’s students understand 3D objects, his actual purpose was solving the structural problem of moving the parts independently without the entire mechanism falling apart. He did not realize that he had created a puzzle until the first time he scrambled his new Cube and then tried to restore it.”
Baseball was first invented in England
“[Diaries found] showed the game was a well-established sport in the 18th Century and was played by men and women… played in the UK more than 20 years before American independence.” Don’t shoot me over this one…I’m just the messenger. (The Northern Rose wont like that)
Nazis invented the blow-up doll
“The project was meant to “counterbalance” the sexual desires of German troops and was considered “more secret than top secret”. Borghild (the name of the doll) aimed to reflect the beauty-ideal of the Nazis: white skin, fair hair and blue eyes.”
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