The earliest recorded case of a man giving up smoking was on April 5, 1679, when Johan Katsu, Sheriff of Turku, Finland, wrote in his diary "I quit smoking tobacco." He died one month later.

Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other nation.

The world's first escalator was built in Coney Island, NY, in 1896.

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