Today I Found Out

12 'First Times Ever' You Need to Know! (2015x89)

: 26, 2015

1. The First Completed Pass ever thrown by Brett Favre (note to Simon- pronounced “Farv”) was to himself… In his first official play in the NFL during the second game of the 1992 season, Favre threw the ball only to have a defender deflect it back. Favre caught the ball and was tackled for a loss of 7 yards. 2. The First Cell Phone weighed 2.4 pounds and was 9x5x1.75 inches in size. It also had only 20 minutes of battery life when talking, but as Motorolla employee Martin Cooper stated “that wasn’t really a big problem because you couldn’t hold that phone up for that long.” Once the phone battery was drained, it took approximately 10 hours to charge back up fully. 3. The First UPC Barcode was a pack of Wrigley’s Juicy Fruit gum, first scanned in Marsh’s supermarket in Troy, Ohio in June of 1974.