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Frank Morris was the first person to escape from Alcatraz.

Windsor is the last name of England's Queen Elizabeth II.

Milton Friedman was the first American to win the Nobel Prize in Economics.

Salmon P. Chase is pictured on the front of the $10,000 bill, the highest denomination of United States publicly circulated paper currency.

Ellen Church was the first airline flight attendant.

Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen discovered X-Rays.

Harold S. Vanderbilt invented contract bridge.

Marie Curie was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize.

Luther Crowell invented the paper bag.

On October 24, 1901, Anna Edson Taylor became the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel.

Walter Hunt invented the safety pin.

Ruth Handler created the Barbie doll.

The ashes of the average cremated person weigh 9 pounds.

The human brain is approximately 85% water.

Jerrie Mock, in 1964, became the first woman to make a successful solo flight around the world.

Henry Bliss was the first automobile fatality in the United States. He was struck and killed by a car on September 13, 1899.

The first American woman to walk in space was Kathy Sullivan.

The first person to land an airplane at the South Pole was Rear Admiral G. J. Dufek.

The first person in the United States to have inside plumbing in his house was poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, in 1840.

Mia Farrow was on the first cover of People magazine.

The first American woman to earn a Ph.D. was Helen Magill White.

The average adult has 3,500 square inches of skin.

The first American woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize was Jane Addams, in 1931.

In 1950, Ralph Bunche became the first black American to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.

The first black woman millionaire was Sarah Breedlove Walker.

Shorthand was invented by Isaac Pitman.

The only civilian to be named an honorary veteran of the United States Armed Forces was Bob Hope.

The term "Holy Moley", used by Captain Marvel, was created by William Woolfolk.

The first pope to visit the White House was Pope John Paul II, in 1979.

Coca-Cola was invented by John S. Pemberton, on May 8, 1886.

In 1954, Richard Herrick received the first successful kidney transplant. It was donated by his twin brother Ronald Herrick.

The term "cold war" was originated by Bernard Baruch, in 1947.

The term "global village" was originated by Marshall McLuhan.

Batman was created by Bob Kane.

The most common eye color in the world is brown.