Actor Ward Bond is best remembered for his role as Major Seth Adams on the NBC Western series Wagon Train. He died of a heart attack on Nov. 5, 1960 at the age of 57.
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November 5, 2025
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On This Day
1895 - George B. Selden received the first U.S. patent for an automobile. He sold the rights for $200,000 ($7.8 million today) four years later.
Fact of the Day
When invented in the 1840s, some people criticized anesthesia as a “needless luxury.” Within 7 years, virtually every hospital in America had adopted the new discovery.
Nature Oddities
The Australian ibis — also known as bin chickens — have learned how to eat poisonous cane toads by picking them up, shaking them around to expel the poison and empty their poison sacs, then washing the poison off with water.
Food and Drink
The first vending machine to sell live crabs debuted in 2010 in a train station in Nanjing, China. The machine sells about 200 live crabs a day, with prices from $2 to $7. A sign next to the machine states that each crab will come out alive, offering a refund of 3 live crabs for every dead one to pop out.