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OddlyTrue News Stand — August 29
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Weird history on August 29
1885 First everGottlieb Daimler patented the world's first internal-combustion motorcycle, the Reitwagen (replica pictured).
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- 1885 First ever
Gottlieb Daimler patents the world's first motorcycle with an internal combustion engine, the Reitwagen.
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1949 First everSoviet atomic bomb project: The Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb, known as First Lightning or Joe 1, at Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan.
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