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First

(adv)
UK
fɜːst
US
fɜːrst
Definition: Coming before all others in time or order; earliest; 1st.
Meaning: Thứ nhất, đầu tiên, trước hết
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The successfully grown pineapples go right back to the staff who grew them as an appreciation for growing them in the first place.

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He increased the sales by 45% in the first year by offering lower prices on products that he purchased from lower cost suppliers.

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On July 2nd, 1962 Sam Walton opened the first Walmart Discount City store.

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Within five years of the first Walmart opening in Arkansas it expanded to 24 stores in the state and sales reaches $12.6 million.

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The first Walmart Supercenter opened in 1988 in Missouri.

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Airbnb's first year was very successful for the three founders, it changed their lives that year and kept a roof over their heads, and they only had four hundred guests!

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The First Emperor of Qin was not the first to build the Great Wall.

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Badaling Great Wall was the first section of the wall to open for tourists.

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George Devol made the first of these, the Unimate, in 1954, with one arm and one hand.

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The first Arab recipe books describe its use in the preparation of various dishes, and even in the fables of The Arabian Nights we can find it served at marvellous banquets.

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Today, to produce yogurt, milk is first heated, usually to about 85 °C (185 °F), to denature the milk proteins so that they do not form curds.

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The Internet was first connected in October, 1969 and was called ARPANET.

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The first smartphone running Android was released in 2008, the HTC Dream or T-Mobile G1 depending on your country, it had a sliding keyboard.

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They were the first dedicated Android website and their first post came the same day as Google officially announced Android in 2007.

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Olmecs (1400-300 BC), is the first greatest civilization in Mexico.

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The Zapotec civilization (600 BC – AD 800) developed the first writing system in the Americans and established great cities along southern Mexico.

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Lincoln was the first president of the United States to be assassinated.

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The first football game played in 1869 when McGill University played Yale.

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In 1937, the first live coverage of a football match was shown on television.

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The first item to be sold on eBay was a broken laser pointer.

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In the first week, he listed it as $1 and to no surprise, it didn't sell.

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The first item sold in the UK was a CD.

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In 2008 the first person reached a feedback score of 1 million.

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There have been multiple, but the first person to reach a feedback score of 1 million was Jack Sheng.

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After 8 years of selling, on November 13th 2008, Sheng became the first person to reach this amount of reviews.

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This is not the first time an item has been listed in the wrong category, or identified as something it is not.

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His works were later rediscovered by both Arabic and Renaissance scientists who first replicated his results and then built on them.

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Cheese production can be dated back to 8000 BCE when sheep when first domesticated.

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The first laptop was made in 1981 by British Designer Adam osborn.

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The first successful laptop computer was the Japanese Kyocera kyotronic 85, introduced in 1983.

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In 1995, Microsoft made the first of their Windows operating systems and streamlined the design of future laptops.

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The first pancake recipe that appeared in an English cookbook was in the 15th century.

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The first cat to take a trip to space was called Félicette.

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The first country to build drones was Israel, with Israel Aerospace Industries heading the charge in terms of export numbers.

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In 1916, the first attempt at a powered UAV was the "Aerial Target".

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Armed drones were the first military drones used.

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They were first used to deal with feared terrorist and military-in-chief Mohammed Atef in 2001.

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Seoul has been described as the world's "most wired city", ranked first in technology readiness by Pwc's Cities of Opportunity report.

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Many research projects have been undertaken, since the international safeguarding program was first launched in 1993.

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In 2003, a horse was cloned for the first time.

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Experts believe they first appeared about 4,500 years ago.

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During the first half of the 20th Century, bald eagles were considered a threat to the salmon fishing industry and over 100,000 eagles were killed.

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When it was first formed, Jupiter was much hotter and was about twice its current diameter.

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The first use of virtual reality would be in 1962 with the creation of the light pen, a device capable of writing on a computer without the need for physical ink.

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In 1990 Microsoft released its first version of Windows.

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His first attempt was a failure because he failed exams in botany, zoology and languages.

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He published his first scientific paper in 1900, and by 1905 had completed his PhD entitled "A New Determination of Molecular Dimensions".

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The first mention of chips was in 1854 when a leading chef included "thin cut potatoes cooked in oil" in his recipe book, Shilling Cookery.

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Fish and chips gained popularity when the meal helped feed the masses during the First World War.

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There are claims to the first chippie from Lancashire in the North and London in the South of England.

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No matter who may have opened the first fish and chip shop, the trade grew to feed a rapidly expanding population, reaching a staggering 35,000 shops in the 1930s and more than tripling since then.

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Their first pies were based on berries and fruits pointed out to them by the Native North Americans.

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America's first cookbook includes two recipes for apple pie, neither claiming the roots of the recipe.

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The first ever YouTube video was uploaded on April 23, 2005.

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When they played their first prank, they turned the website upside down and Rickrolled everyone.

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Rickrolling made its first appearance on YouTube in 2009.

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The first world leader to create a YouTube channel was the British Prime Minister, Tony Blair who made his account in 2007.

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The video to first reach 1 billion views the fastest was Hello by Adele.

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The video to reach the most views in the first day of being uploaded is the Star Wars: The Force Awakens Official Teaser #2.

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Justin Bieber is one of the first YouTube success stories.

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The city's name, originally Maynilad, is derived from that of the nilad plant, the name was shortened first to Maynila and then to its present form.

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The city was for the first time mentioned in 1275 by count Floris V, count of Holland and Zeeland who gave the people of Amsterdam some more freedom.

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The city was one of the first cities in Western Europe to be fairly democratic: Wealthy citizens chose the leaders of the city.

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The idea of an opportunity cost was first begun by John Stuart Mill.

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The hashtag was first introduced in 2007.

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At first, there were doubts around whether the hashtag would ever become popular with internet users, since it appeared too technical and "nerdy.".

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The very first tweet was posted on March 21, 2006.

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Jack Dorsey, one of Twitter's co-founders, was the first person to post anything to Twitter.

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Jack Dorsey posted the first tweet at 9:50pm and it read, "just setting up my twttr.".

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The original type of sushi, nare-zushi, was first developed in Southeast Asia and then spread to southern China before its introduction to Japan sometime around the 8th century AD .

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The first self-contained unit was introduced by Frigidaire in 1923.

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Banh mi first came to Vietnam through French soldiers during the French colonization with the name 'baguette', but Vietnamese Banh mi usually has a fluffier texture and crispier crust than the French baguette due to the baking tools and techniques used.

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In the 1860s, when France laid their first steps in Vietnam to start their invasion, the bread made from wheat flour also arrived in Vietnam.

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These birds first lived within forests and rainforests, an environment which still remains their most comfortable and natural habitat.

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When peacocks are first born, they don't have tails, and in fact don't look very impressive until they are around 3 years old.

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Although the popularity of kimchi is still rising in the West, it is an ancient dish, dating about two thousand years back, when it was first mentioned in written documents.

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Barcelona has become the first city in the world to gain the "Biosphere World Class Destination" certification.

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It was here that Marilyn got her first big break.

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She took drama lessons and got her first movie contract with Twentieth Century Fox.

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Her first few films were low key, but from these beginnings, it gained her more prominent roles in films such as All About Eve, Niagara and later Gentleman Prefer Blondes and How To Marry A Millionaire.

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The idea of creating a taxi-booking mobile app for Southeast Asia similar to those being pioneered in the US first came from Anthony Tan.

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Saint Andrew was a fisherman who was tortured and crucified on a "X" cross in the first Century BC.

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She had a brief career as a singer before opening her first clothes shop in 1910.

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Opening her first shop on Paris's Rue Cambon in 1910, Chanel started out selling hats.

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She made innovative use of jersey fabric - a manufactured cloth which proved useful during the shortages of the First World War.

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She quickly gained a rising reputation for being on the forefront of fashion, and her initial success encouraged her to start another shop in Biarritz which prospered as a venue for the wealthy during the First World War.

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In the 1920s, she launched her first perfume and eventually introduced the Chanel suit and the little black dress, with an emphasis on making clothes that were more comfortable for women.

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First of all, let's look at what stock is.

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Ah chocolate, the first love of every man, woman and child, it's a solution (however temporary) to every problem from upset and anger to happiness and adoration.

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Joseph Fry invented the first chocolate bar in 1847.

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It was taken on Captain Robert Scott's first expedition to the Antarctic.

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Irish botanist Sir Hans Sloane is said to have first mixed chocolate with milk in Jamaica in the early 1700s.

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The first cacao trees were found in the Amazon River basin and the Venezuelan and Colombian Andes.

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7th July is National Chocolate Day in the UK, the day marks when chocolate was first brought to Europe on 7th July 1550.

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Venus was the first planet to have its motions plotted across the sky, as early as the second millennium BC and spins very slowly on its axis, it spins in the opposite direction to the other planets.

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The planet was the first to be discovered by mathematical calculations instead of using a telescope.

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The first photo ever posted was by the co-founder, @kevin on July 16, 2010.

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When Instagram launched the video function in 2013, 5 million videos were uploaded in the first 24 hours.

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In 1828, the first indoor swimming pool, St George's Baths was opened to the public.

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The recreational activity grew in popularity and by 1880, when the first national governing body, the Amateur Swimming Association was formed, there were already over 300 regional clubs in operation across the country.

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All this, whilst allowing you to look anywhere in the world at any point in time, and yet you will still always go straight to your street first.

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The first of many Google Doodles was an out-of-office message in 1998, the doodle was a man standing behind an O, the second in Goo.

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Google's new employees are known as Nooglers, they are required to wear blue, yellow and red hats at their first company-wide meeting.

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The first snack given to employees was Swedish Fish in 1999.

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Google at first was stored on ten 4GB hard drives in a Lego casing for easy storage expansion.

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Samsung initially sold noodles and other produce, it wasn't until 1970 that the first electrical product was sold by Samsung: a 12 inch Black & White TV.

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Six Flags and Samsung teamed up in 2016 to create North America's first Virtual Reality Rollercoasters which used Samsung Gear VR equipment.

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They created the digital TV in 1998, the Watch phone and MP3 phone in 1999, the 3D home theater in 2010 and the world's first curved smartphone display in 2013.

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Samsung's S8 was the first device to use the flagship Bixby system.

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The Electronics giant actually created their first ever fighter jet the KF-16.

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Although confusing at first, the naming of the site after the mountain it rests besides actually makes more sense than you'd expect.

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Augusto Berns was most likely the first Westerner to reach Machu Picchu.

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Not only was Machu Picchu never lost, it's possible that Bingham wasn't even the first Westerner to set eyes upon it.

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There are even maps which show reference to the ruins as early as 1874, strengthening the theory that Bingham was certainly not the first there.

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The first laptop was made in 1981 by British Designer Adam osborn.

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The first successful laptop computer was the Japanese Kyocera kyotronic 85, introduced in 1983.

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Seoul has been described as the world's "most wired city", ranked first in technology readiness by Pwc's Cities of Opportunity report.

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The collaboration between Matt Bonner, the San Antonio Spurs' redheaded power forward, and Adidas first started after Bonner complained publicly on Twitter about rival sneaker brand New Balance not sending him product anymore.

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Bingham made this suggestion as more than 75% of the first few dozen skeletons unearthed were primarily identified as female.

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The energy released by a large earthquake may be equal to 10,000 times the energy of the first atomic bomb.

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With ruins, tombs and structures dating as far back as 300 BC, the Petra World Heritage Site should be your first port of call.

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First, we have to look at the pioneers in this automotive field, pushing the boundaries, trying to reach an otherwise impossible dream.

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The 1920s saw inventors take their first test run with the "Linrrican Wonder", debuted Houdina Radio Control, it was a radio-controlled driverless car and was shown traveling through a traffic jam in New York City.

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EUREKA also started the first real project aimed at creating autonomous vehicles from 1987 to 1995, it was called the Prometheus Project.

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The ALV, or Autonomous Land Vehicle, project in America carried out the first example of a car following a road that used computer vision and autonomous robotic control, it reached up to 19 mph, using newly developed technology from numerous scientific powerhouses including the University of Maryland.

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In 1987 with the ALV, HRL Labs displayed the first off-road map and sensor-based autonomous navigation going 2,000+ feet at 1.9 mph on difficult terrain.

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The first football match was played in Scotland in 1872.

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Edinburgh, Scotland's capital, was the first city in the world to have its own fire brigade.

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The first recorded sighting of the Loch Ness Monster was in 565 AD.

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The world's first color photograph was taken of a Tartan Ribbon in Scotland.

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Perhaps a seemingly easy task at first, Grier only had one day in which to distribute the chocolate.

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Bitcoins may sound a bit farcical at first, but it's actually a real currency used to buy real things.

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In February 2017 Samsung managed to secure another world first after their QLED TV managed to be the first TV ever to be capable of reaching 100 percent color volume meaning a truer picture and more defined image.

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The first candy cane was made over 350 years ago.

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The candy cane was first mentioned in association with Christmas in 1874.

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In 1882, candy canes were first hung on Christmas trees.

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The red and white striped candy canes were first made around 1900.

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Christopher Columbus was the first person to bring sugarcane to the New World.

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George Devol made the first of these, the Unimate, in 1954, with one arm and one hand.

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At first glance, Bitcoin may sound confusing, however below are ten facts that will truly explain in layman's terms what exactly bitcoin is and how it came to be.

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Yeah, most people think too so at first.

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Olmecs (1400-300 BC), is the first greatest civilization in Mexico.

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The Zapotec civilization (600 BC - AD 800) developed the first writing system in the Americans and established great cities along southern Mexico.

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Many research projects have been undertaken since the international safeguarding program was first launched in 1993.

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In 1990 Microsoft released its first version of Windows.

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The city's name, originally Maynilad, is derived from that of the nilad plant, the name was shortened first to Maynila and then to its present form.

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The city was for the first time mentioned in 1275 by count Floris V, count of Holland and Zeeland who gave the people of Amsterdam some more freedom.

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The idea of an opportunity cost was first begun by John Stuart Mill.

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In 1876, the red triangle logo for Bass Pale Ale was made the world's first trademark.

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The first beer can was invented in 1935.

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In fact, the world's first document was an Ancient Sumerian tablet depicting a recipe for beer.

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Although the popularity of kimchi is still rising in the West, it is an ancient dish, dating about two thousand years back, when it was first mentioned in written documents.

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She took drama lessons and got her first movie contract with Twentieth Century Fox.

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Her first few films were low key, but from these beginnings, it gained her more prominent roles in films such as All About Eve, Niagara and later Gentleman Prefer Blondes and How To Marry A Millionaire.

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The idea of creating a taxi-booking mobile app for Southeast Asia similar to those being pioneered in the US first came from Anthony Tan.

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Interestingly, the first crop in May tends to produce a longer shelf life and a better flavor.

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In ceremonies, the teapot should always be warmed first and tea leaves should always remain in the pot.

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In 1828, the first indoor swimming pool, St George's Baths was opened to the public.

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The word software was first used in the late 1960s to emphasize on its difference from computer hardware, which can be physically observed by the user.

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First shown off at the Geneva Motor show 2016, with all 20 units sold.

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This astounding piece of automotive beauty is actually the first Arab Supercar and only had 7 vehicles produced each one fully customizable to make them as unique as possible.

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The first "cheese cake" was created on the Greek island of Samos.

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History has the first recorded mention of cheesecake as being served to the athletes during the first Olympic Games held in 776 BC.

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As a matter of fact, the Adidas Superstar was the first basketball shoe with a low top silhouette featuring an all leather upper portion.

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The logo was first introduced in the Munich Olympics in 1972.

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While Adidas's current collection features sneakers for nearly every sports, the first pair of Adidas were track spikes made especially for track and field.

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Adidas was the first to introduce a microchip into the design of their sneakers.

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Basketball was first played on December 21, 1891.

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Jeremy Lin held the record of the high points scored in their first 3 games.

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Peach baskets were used as the first "hoops".

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The first backboards were made of wire.

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Lynette Woodward was the first female Globetrotter basketball team player.

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No matter how complicated a task or problem at hand, first, they take a proposed framework of what the solution looks like.

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