Ken Jennings's Trivia Almanac (129 page)

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AUGUST 4

1834
M
ATHEMATICIAN
J
OHN
V
ENN
is born in Yorkshire. He will invent Venn diagrams, the overlapping circles used in set theory.

REMEMBER VENN

What’s the only item that could belong in the overlapping area in these Venn diagrams?

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1952
T
HE FIRST
K
ENTUCKY
F
RIED
C
HICKEN
restaurant opens—not in Kentucky but in Salt Lake City, Utah.

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