The technology of smoke detectors was invented by accident. In the 1930s, a Swiss physicist named Walter Jaeger was trying to develop a sensor for detecting poison gas.  His device wasn’t registering gas at all, so out of frustration, he lit a cigarette.  And the smoke moved the meter on his gadget.

The Pledge of Allegiance was originally created as a marketing scheme to help sell more flags to public schools.

More Americans died in the Civil War than any other war we’ve fought in . . . about 625,000, or 2% of the population at the time.  Of course, it makes sense that more Americans died in the Civil War . . . we were killing each other.

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