Questions:
1) What was the first item ever dispensed from a vending machine?
2) People in this profession are credited with having the most extensive vocabulary.
3) What river forms the natural border for northern Kentucky?
4) The longest Monopoly game on record lasted how long?
Answers:
1) The first reference to a vending machine is in the work of Hero of Alexandria, a first-century engineer and mathematician. His machine accepted a coin and then dispensed holy water. The first modern coin-operated vending machines were introduced in London, England in the early 1880s, dispensing post cards. The first vending machine in the U.S. was built in 1888 by the Thomas Adams Gum Company, selling gum on New York City train platforms.
2) Journalists
3) The Ohio River
4) 1,680 hours - over 70 days
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