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The earliest-born human ever recorded speaking was famous for barely talking at all. Helmuth von Moltke, born in 1800 and nicknamed "The Great Silent One," had his voice captured by Thomas Edison's team in 1889.
Thomas Edison's 1879 light bulb experiments likely produced graphene, a Nobel Prize-winning material that wouldn't be officially discovered for another 125 years. Rice University scientists recreated his work and found the inventor accidentally created one of the 21st century's most important materials.