The Law

Fire Alarms

In Florida failure to tell your neighbor his house is on fire is illegal.

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Sports

First Frisbee

In the 1870s, William Russell Frisbie opened a bakery called the Frisbie Pie Company in Bridgeport, Connecticut. His lightweight pie tins were embossed with the family name. In the mid-1940s, students at Yale University tossed the empty pie tins as a game.

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Business

First Barcode

The first product to have a barcode printed on its packaging was Wrigley’s gum.

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Computers

First Microprocessor

The World’s first microprocessor was created in 1971, called the 4004 by Intel. It contained 2300 transistors.

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