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.

Between 1902 and 1907, the same tiger killed 434 people in India.

In 1810, Peter Durand invented the tin can for preserving food.

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