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The first telephone book was one page long and had only 50 names in it.

The first song played on Virgin Radio was Born to be wild by INXS!

The first programme shown on BBC2 was Play School

The first product to have a bar code was Wrigleys gum!

The first person to go over Niagara falls was Annie Edson-Taylor. She made the trip in a wooden barrel and survived!

The first patented condom was meant to be reused!

The first household refrigerators cost about $16,000, in today's money!

The first hard drive available for the Apple II had a capacity of only 5 megabytes.