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To win a gold disc, an album needs to sell 100,000 copies in Britain, and 500,000 in the United States. Melba toast is named after Australian opera singer Dame Nellie Melba (1861-1931). Music was sent down a telephone line for the first time in 1876, the year the phone was invented. The CD was developed …

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Today there are almost a billion TV sets in the world. China has the most TV sets (200 million). US citizens watch the most TV. By age 65, an American would have watched the equivalent of 9 years uninterrupted screening, viewing more than 20,000 TV commercials per year. The first daily broadcast was started by …

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