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Fast facts: English ships carried limes to protect the sailors from scurvy. American ships carried cranberries. A grizzly bear is capable of running as fast as the average horse. The average major league baseball lasts seven pitches before being replaced. Queen Anne's bowed legs inspired a furniture style. A local ordinance in Atwoodville, Conn., prohibits people from playing Scrabble while waiting for a politician to speak.

 

On this date: In 1556, Akhbar the Great Mughal routed the Hindus under Hemu by turning their elephants against them at the battle of Panipat in the Hindu revolt. In 1872, suffragist Susan B. Anthony was fined $100 for attempting to vote in a presidential election. In 1895, George Seldon got a patent for the automobile, which - in retrospect - he mistakenly sold four years later, for $200,000. In 1912, Woodrow Wilson won the United States presidential election, becoming the only president to defeat two former presidents in one election. In 1935, the game "Monopoly" was introduced by the Parker Brothers Co.