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.

Thomas Watson, who was the chairman of IBM in 1943 predicted that their would probably only be a world market for five computers.

About 85% of the world's population is right-handed.

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