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René Lacoste, a professional tennis player, invented the world’s first good tennis shirt. Known as “Le Crocodile” for his on-court tenacity, Lacoste added the crocodile to his clothes in the 1930s – the first time a logo is know to have appeared on the outside of a shirt.

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Francis Galton, the inventor of fingerprinting, also had several other notable ideas: the weather map, the phrase “nature vs. nurture,” and the silent dog whistle.

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The average CD can hold 74 minutes’ worth of music. That unusual length was determined by Sony’s president, who decided that a single CD should be able to contain the longest recorded version of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony.