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Doug Coldwell's multiple article Did You Knows

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Did you know that that Henry L. Haskell patented a game board (1900 vintage board shown) through the Carrom Company to keep young boys out of pool halls where they might develop bad habits?

Did you know that the one-piece Haskell canoe (pictured) was made from plywood glued together with slaughterhouse blood?

Did you know that the Electro-Dynamic Light Company, organized by Albon Man and others, was formed three months before the Edison Electric-Light Company?

Did you know that Larry Kelly founded Shelby Gem Factory, which at one site grows uncut cultured gems, including diamonds, facets them, and mounts them in gold?

Did you know that Mary-Ann was the first steam turbine generator operated by a public utility to produce electricity?

Did you know that Cadwallon ap Gruffydd, son of the king of Gwynedd, was willing to murder three of his mother's brothers to gain power, but was himself later killed by another brother of hers?

Did You Know that Benjamin Hale was the first instructor of the first vocational trade school in the United States?

Did You Know that in his Florentine Chronicle, Baldassarre Bonaiuti, tells how during the Black Death of 1348 sick people in Florence were abandoned by their families?

Did You Know that Princess Ennigaldi, daughter of the last Neo-Babylonian king Nabonidus, created the world's first museum (ruins pictured)?

Did You Know that a pile of junk wooden pallets built up by Daniel Van Meter became a cultural historic monument?

Did You Know that Nels Johnson built Century tower clocks, designed to last 100 years?

Did You Know that Erie J. Sauder was a Mennonite cabinetmaker with only an eighth grade education when he started the ready-to-assemble furniture industry?

Did You Know that Marc Sautet started the philosophical cafe known as Café Philosophique?

Did You Know that John Stuart Skinner and Francis Scott Key were on a mercy mission to get back Dr. William Beanes from British hands, when Key was inspired to write "The Star Spangled Banner?"

Did You Know that the first modern time capsule was Thornwell Jacobs’ Crypt of Civilization at Oglethorpe University, Atlanta, Georgia, due to be opened May 28, 8113?

Did You Know that the two-inch-tall people of The Teenie Weenies were a Chicago Tribune comic strip written by William Donahey for over 50 years?

Did You Know that the Julian Price Memorial Park, developed in Julian Price’s honor, and the Moses H. Cone Memorial Park are the largest developed recreational areas on the Blue Ridge Parkway?

Did You Know that Silas C. Overpack's Michigan logging wheels, designed to haul logs across rough terrain, were nine to ten feet high and always painted red?

Did you know that Joseph Dart and Robert Dunbar designed and built the first steam-powered grain elevator in the world?

Did you know that "the smallest newspaper in the world" (issue shown) was published by Swift Lathers from his home for over 50 years, and had paid subscribers in 38 states?

Did You Know that William M. Brish was instrumental in developing the first closed circuit television network for public elementary schools?

Did You Know that Flat Top Manor, built by textile industrialist Moses H. Cone in 1900, gets nearly 250,000 visitors annually as the main feature of the Moses H. Cone Memorial Park in North Carolina?

Did You Know that William Austin Burt was the first to invent a workable typewriter in America, as well as a workable solar compass (pictured), a solar use surveying instrument, and an equatorial sextant, a precision navigational aid to determine with one observation the location of a ship at sea?

Did You Know that Giovanni de Ventura, a plague doctor who may have worn a beak doctor costume (pictured), was restricted by a covenant to treat only infectious patients?

Did You Know that the Fremont Canning Company, owned by Frank Daniel Gerber and Daniel Frank Gerber and known for its Gerber Baby logo, pioneered the commercial baby food industry in the U.S.?

Did You Know that Royal Page Davidson, son of Northwestern Military Academy founder Harlan Page Davidson, invented the first U.S. military car and fully armored car as well as a lightly armored car?

Did You Know that throughout U.S. history, different types of mail bags have been called mail pouch, mail sack, mail satchel, catcher pouch, mochila saddle mailbag (pictured), and portmanteau depending on form, function, place and time?

Did You Know that the Appomattox Park (pictured) has a Court-house, Tavern, Jail, Store and Prizery, the Bocock-Isbell, McLean, Peers and Wright houses, the Sweeney and Sweeney-Conner cabins, the Jones and Woodson law offices, ruins and cemeteries?

Did You Know that samples of moon rock and lunar dust soil from the Apollo 11 and Apollo 17 missions, mounted on wooden plaque displays especially for Brazil, Canada, Cyprus, Honduras, Ireland, Malta, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Norway, Romania, Spain, and Sweden, plus the states of Alaska, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Delaware, Hawaii (pictured), Illinois, Missouri, Nebraska, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, and West Virginia, were later reported missing by many of the recipients?