The longest U.S. highway is Route 20, which is over 3,365 miles.

In 1963, baseball pitcher Gaylord Perry remarked, "They'll put a man on the moon before I hit a home run." On July 20, 1969, a few hours after Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, Gaylord Perry hit his first (and only) home run.

Thomas Edison coined the word "hello" and introduced it as a way to answer the phone.

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