18 August

10 weird and wonderful things which happened on 18 August

1. In 1900, the word Television was coined by a Frenchman named Constantin Perskyi in his presentation at the Internation Electricity Conference in Paris, putting together a Latin word and a Greek word.
2. In 2018, archaeologists from Cairo University and the University of Catania reported the discovery of one of the oldest known examples of Cheese at a tomb in the Saqqara necropolis, the first known evidence of ancient Egyptian cheese production.
3. In 1817, newspapers in Gloucester, Massachusetts reported that a wild sea serpent had been seen offshore. The creature was reported to be 3 feet in diameter, and 100 feet long.
4. In 1939, it rained frogs in Trowbridge, Wiltshire.
5. In 1873, Charles Begole, A.H. Johnson, and John Lucas became the first climbers to scale Mt. Whitney, the second highest peak in the US.
6. Another Mountain climbing feat took place on this date in 1950, but not by a human. A four month old kitten scaled the Matterhorn in three days, following a party of human climbers.
7. In 2010, French beauty brand Etat Libre D'Orange announced they had teamed up with The Sex Pistols to bottle the scent of the Punk era. Company executives said "to wear this scent, you must resist tradition, fight conformity, and disregard aromatic conventions."
8. In 1859, the Great Blondin crossed Niagara Falls on a Tightrope, carrying another man on his shoulders.
9. In 1996, Phillipe Cailleau of Frechou, France, won the Melon-seed Spitters World Championship by spitting a melon seed almost 7 metres.
10. Exploding the myth of the bull in the china shop: in 1997, Raja, a three year old bull Elephant, backed into a china shop in Bedfordshire, negotiated his way around and out again without breaking anything.

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