The driest inhabited place in the world is Aswan, Egypt where the annual average rainfall is .02 inches.

The Planters Peanut Company mascot, Mr. Peanut, was created during a contest for schoolchildren in 1916.

On December 23, 1947, Bell Telephone Laboratories in Murray Hill, N.J., held a secret demonstration of the transistor which marked the foundation of modern electronics.

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