The new trivia thread.
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The first telephone directory, consisting of a single piece of cardboard, was issued on 21 February 1878; it listed 50 businesses in New Haven, Connecticut
The hamburger; a ground beef patty between two slices of bread, was first created in America around 1890
The bilby (Macrotis lagotis) is an Australian species of nocturnal omnivorous animal.
For $5,000,000 of debt.
The Adams–Onís Treaty of 1819, also known as the Transcontinental Treaty or the Purchase of Florida,was a treaty between the United States and Spain in 1819 that gave Florida to the U.S. and set out a boundary between the U.S. and New Spain (now Mexico). It settled a standing border dispute between the two countries and was considered a triumph of American diplomacy. It came in the midst of increasing tensions between the U.S. and Spain regarding territorial rights at a time of weakened Spanish power. In addition to ceding Florida to the United States, the treaty settled a boundary dispute along the Sabine River in Texas and firmly established the boundary of U.S. territory and claims through the Rocky Mountains and west to the Pacific Ocean, in exchange for the U.S. paying residents' claims against the Spanish government up to a total of $5,000,000 and relinquishing its own claims on parts of Texas west of the Sabine River and other Spanish areas under the terms of the Louisiana Purchase.
You fell for it, you big Dodo. It is the great Auk ( extinct ), not to be confused with the Auk ( minor ) that still exist in nature.
Name the only track and field athlete to win four consecutive Olympic gold medals. No Googling 
Name the only track and field athlete to win an Olympic gold medal, set world records, and retire unbeaten at his specialty.
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