Author Robert May considered the names of Reginald and Rollo before he settled on "Rudolph, the red-nosed reindeer."

Plutonium - first weighed on August 20th, 1942, by University of Chicago scientists Glenn Seaborg and his colleagues - was the first man-made element.

In eighteenth-century English gambling dens, there was an employee whose only job was to swallow the dice if there was a police raid.

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