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Hip hop was born on 11 August 1973 at a back-to-school party in a Bronx apartment block. Jamaican-born DJ Kool Herc played two copies of the same record on two turntables to stretch out the drum break the dancers loved.
📍 Annonay, France
Paper-makers Joseph and Étienne Montgolfier first flew their hot-air balloon publicly in their hometown of Annonay, France, in June 1783. Chinese sky lanterns came first, but theirs carried the first passengers: a sheep, a duck and a rooster.
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📍 Lombardy (Pavia & Como), Italy
The first electric battery was a stack of zinc and copper discs separated by brine-soaked cloth, built by Alessandro Volta in Lombardy in 1799. It grew out of his argument with Luigi Galvani over twitching frog legs.
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📍 China
Brushes with stiff hog bristles set in bone or bamboo handles were being used in China centuries before William Addis began mass-producing toothbrushes in England around 1780.
📍 California, USA
Despite its name, the Bengal cat was created in the United States: breeder Jean Mill crossed a wild Asian leopard cat with a house cat in 1963 and founded the breed in California in the 1980s. 'Bengal' comes from the leopard cat's scientific name.
📍 Battle Creek, Michigan, USA
Flaked cereal was born in 1894 at a health sanitarium in Battle Creek, Michigan, when the Kellogg brothers rolled out cooked wheat that had been left standing and got flakes. Meant as plain food for patients, it switched to corn and conquered breakfast.
📍 Central coast of California, USA
Monterey pine grows wild only along a short stretch of California's central coast and on two Mexican islands. Yet it makes up about 90% of New Zealand's plantation forests.