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• Bruce "The Boss" Springsteen was born in Long Branch, NJ in 1949.

• New Jersey has over 1100 residents per square mile.

• Shoe shines gained popularity in the 1800s, as leather shoes became affordable.

• Radio host Rush Limbaugh and singer James Brown were both once shoe shiners.

• Additives to prevent rubber from cracking weren`t available until the mid 1930s.

• The first typewritten manuscript was Mark Twain`s The Adventure of Tom Sawyer.

• Thomas Edison was awarded the first patent for a microphone in 1877.

• Skeet shooting was invented by a Massachusetts bird hunter in 1920.

• Skeet shooting officially became an Olympic sport in 1968.

• "Skeet" was the winning entry in a 1926 magazine contest to name the new sport.

• Central Park was officially completed in 1873, on 843 acres of public lands.

• A brougham is an enclosed, two-door horse drawn carriage from the 1800s.

• (About carriage manufacturer company Brewster.) Brewster`s clients included J.P. Morgan, the Rockefellers, and the Vanderbilts.
 

• Panorama City is a district in the San Fernando Valley, just north of Los Angeles.

• Panorama City was once home to a GM assembly plant and a Schlitz brewery.

• The Pittsburgh Steelers adopted the U.S. Steel logo in the 1962 N.F.L. season.

• Hagen won 11 major titles, third all-time behind Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods.

• External frame backpacks are common in the military and among mountain climbers.

• `Rifled` barrels contain grooves that improve the accuracy of a gun.

• The first driving range, nicknamed "Maniac Hill", opened in North Carolina in 1913.

• The world`s largest driving range, in Tokyo, is 3 stories tall, with 300 tees.

• The earliest Kammerlader rifles fired massive .69 caliber rounds.

• At an 1861 competition in Belgium, the Kammerlader was accurate up to 1 km.
 

• Barrel locks are used on public utility meters, vending machines, and ATMS.

• Black powder pistols are vulnerable to moisture and highly prone to misfires.

• The Krugerrand is a South African gold coin, first minted in 1967.

• Krugerrands were minted to counter economic sanctions due to Apartheid.

• After the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863, sabers were widely replaced by pistols.

• Concrete was first used by the Ancient Romans as early as 27 B.C.

• In 2009, a machine pumped concrete to a world record height of 2,346 ft.

• 680,000 tons of concrete were used to build the Pentagon.

• The largest concrete pour in history was in 2006 at China`s 3 Gorges Dam.

• Starr revolvers were rare compared to the common Colts and Remingtons.

• A percussion revolver is a firearm that doesn`t use self contained ammunition.

• Clint Eastwood`s character used an 1863 Starr revolver in the film Unforgiven.

• A chain fire occurs when the powder ignites in more than one chamber.

• Flying shrapnel and gunpowder from a chain fire can cause serious injury.