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Who Invented Ice Cream?

The origins of ice cream, sorbet and other chilled dairy treats are difficult to pin down—but span back to antiquity.

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8 Things You Might Not Know about Booker T. Washington

Check out fascinating facts about the most famous and influential African American of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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Jon Harington, inventor of the flush toilet

Who Invented the Flush Toilet?

The first modern flushable toilet was described in 1596 by a godson of Queen Elizabeth I.

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Laika, the first dog in space, in the sputnik 2 capsule. (Photo by: Sovfoto/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

What was the first animal in space?

Though far less famous than later non-human astronauts, the first animals in space were a group of fruit flies, launched to an altitude of 42 miles at the tip of a V-2 rocket, developed and used by the Germans during World War II and later by American military scientists on February 20, 1947. The flies, members of […]

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