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A woman pilots a space shuttle

STS-63 Discovery was also the first flight of the Russian-American space program.

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The ice cream scoop is very old!

Alfred L. Cralle obtained a patent for the ice cream scoop on 02 February 1897.

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The OED: how we know the history of the word “vax”

In 1857, a group in London decided the world needed an authoritative English dictionary, complete with a detailed history for every included word and phrase.