The Other Book... of the Most Perfectly Useless Information
Firsts
Orville Wright was involved in the first aircraft accident (his passenger was killed).
Thomas Jefferson grew the first tomatoes in the United States. He wanted to prove to Americans that they were not poisonous (which people believed them to be).
The first female host of Saturday Night Live was Candice Bergen.
The first photograph of the moon was taken in 1839 by Louis Daguerre, but the details were indiscernible. J. W. Draper took the first recognizable photograph in 1840.
Legend has it that the first electric Christmas lights were put together by a telephone switchboard installer. Candles were deemed to be too dangerous near a telephone switchboard, so the installer took some lights from an old switchboard, connected them together, hooked them up to a battery and put them around a Christmas tree.
The first process of color photography—using three colors—was patented (by William Morgan-Brown) in 1876.
Sunglasses first became popular in the 1920s, when movie stars began wearing them to ... read full excerpt from The Other Book... of the Most Perfectly Useless Information ebook
