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- In the television series MacGyver, Angus was MacGyver's first name.
- The first British group to have a recording reach number one in the United States were the Tornados with Telstar in 1962.
- John Elway was the first quarterback to play in five Super Bowl games.
- All U.S. presidents have been buried in the United States. There are no former U.S. presidents buried outside the United States.
- The first chief justice of the United States was John Jay.
- The Brooklyn Dodgers became the first major league baseball team to travel by an airplane, when they flew from St. Louis to Chicago on May 7, 1940.
- Walter Hunt invented the safety pin.
- The first National Football League team to score a 2 point conversion was the Cleveland Browns, in 1994.
- The ship "Hispaniola" was an important part of Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson.
- Chocolate and vanilla were first discovered in Mexico.
- Austin Carr, of Notre Dame, was the first college basketball player to score 50 or more points in 3 NCAA Tournament games.
- The most radioactive food is Brazil nuts.
- The 10 story Wainwright Building, completed in 1891 in St. Louis, Missouri, was the first skyscraper in the United States.
- The first United States president to make a live coast-to-coast television broadcast was Harry S. Truman, in 1951.
- Tennis balls are in William Shakespeare's play Henry V.
- In 1969, Diana Crump became the first female jockey in the United States to ride against men.
- The first human to receive a heart transplant was Louis Washkansky on December 3, 1967.
- The first musical instrument on which Silent Night was played was a guitar.
- Count Dracula was from Transylvania, which is located in Romania.
- The first U.S. vice president to resign was John C. Calhoun in 1832.
- The first two television shows to win Peabody Awards were The Actors Studio and Howdy Doody.
- With 30.6% of the popular vote, John Quincy Adams was the U.S. president who received the smallest percentage of the popular vote.
- On January 1, 1938, Hank Luisetti, of Stanford University, became the first college basketball player to score 50 points in a game.
- The D River in Lincoln City, Oregon, at 440 feet, is the shortest river in the world.
- The ashes of the average cremated person weigh 9 pounds.
- Patty Duke was the first teenager to be given their own show.
- Up From Slavery was the autobiography of Booker T. Washington
- The Caesar salad was invented by Chef Caesar Cardini at his Tijuana, Mexico restaurant, in 1924.
- Lucille Ball and her newborn son, Dezi Arnaz Jr. were on the first cover of TV Guide, on April 3, 1954.
- In 1870, Joseph H. Rainey, of South Carolina, became the first black member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
- Mary Tyler Moore started working in a television series as voice and a pair of legs, when she played Sam, who was a secretary to David Janssen's detective in Richard Diamond.
- The only person to ever pinch-hit for Babe Ruth was Bobby Veach on August 9, 1925.
- The first woman to break the sound barrier was Jacqueline Cochran, in 1953.
- The first black woman millionaire was Sarah Breedlove Walker.
- The approximate speed of the earth's rotation is 1038 miles per hour.
- In 1950, What's My Line became the first panel game show on television.
- The first 3 point shot in the National Basketball Association (NBA), was made by Chris Ford, of the Boston Celtics, on October 12, 1979.
- The first player to win the Heisman Trophy twice was Archie Griffin of Ohio State, in 1974 and 1975.
- The first test-tube baby was born in Oldham, England.
- Armadillos are the only animals that can get leprosy.
- The first female to graduate from The Citadel was Nancy Ruth Mace, in 1999.
- Millard Fillmore was the first United States president to have a stepmother.
- The first pitcher to pitch a no-hitter in Yankee Stadium was Monte Pearson, on August 27, 1938.
- Almost 1,200 people were killed when the Lusitania sank after it was torpedoed by a German submarine.
- There are 403 steps from the foundation to the top of the torch in the Statue of Liberty.
- Jack Haley replaced Buddy Ebsen in the role of the Tin Man in The Wizard of Oz because Buddy Ebsen was allergic to the aluminum paint in the makeup on his skin.
- The only town in the United States to be hit by a tornado three years in a row on the same date is Codell, Kansas on May 20 in 1916, 1917 and 1918.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt was the first U.S. president to fly while in office. It was in 1943.
- A mosquito has 47 teeth.
- A snake is smelling when it sticks out its tongue.