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Fast facts: Chicken feet are an extremely popular dinner dish in Asia. The biggest frog on earth, found in Cameroon, is called the Goliath frog and reaches 30 cm. Gold salts are sometimes injected into the muscles to relieve arthritis. San Francisco is the first and last city in the world to operate cable cars. Railroad conductors and mailmen in the United States refused to wear uniforms until after the Civil War. Over 500 varieties of fish are able to generate appreciable amounts of electricity.

 

On this date: In 1818, Illinois became the 21st U.S. state. In 1883, Oberlin College in Ohio started its term as the United States' first coed institution of higher learning. The school's registration found a total of 44 students enrolled: 29 men and 15 women. In 1910, the neon lamp, developed by French physicist Georges Claude, was displayed for the first time at the Paris Motor Show. In 1924, prizefighter Jack Sharkey had his boxing license revoked by the New York State Boxing Commission after Sharkey knocked down referee Eddie Purdy during a match. In 1925, young American composer George Gershwin appeared as a soloist at a concert in New York's Carnegie Hall, playing his "Concerto in F," the first jazz concerto in history for a piano.

 

Quotable... "The bus came down the hill ... and as it leveled out it blew up." - Witness Rachel Antebe on yesterday's bus bombing in Haifa, Israel just hours after a multiple suicide bombing in Jerusalem.