Thomas Edison is the reason you love cat videos. After inventing the kinetograph in 1892, Edison was able to record and watch moving images for the first time. He filmed short clips in his studio, some of which feature famous people like Annie Oakley and Buffalo Bill. But the real stars of these early videos are the Boxing Cats—adorable cats that he recorded in a boxing ring circa 1894.
100 Mind-Blowing Buffalo Facts
The electric chair was invented by a dentist. Southwick. A steam-boat engineer, inventor and dentist from Buffalo, New York was credited for inventing the electric chair as a method of legal execution.
African buffalo herds display voting behaviour, in which individuals register their travel preference by standing up, looking in one direction, and then lying back down. Only adult females can vote.
Animals have some unusual group names. For instance, a group of parrots is known as a pandemonium. Buffalo form an “obstinacy” and rhinoceroses a “crash.” You may have heard of a “murder” of crows, but what about an “exaltation” of larks?