STRANGE FIRSTS

RECORDS ARE ALWAYS FUN, HOWEVER, RECORDS CAN BE BROKEN. BUT FIRSTS? FIRSTS WILL ALWAYS BE IN THE BOOKS.

LET'S LOOK AT SOME OF THE ODDEST FIRSTS:

THE FIRST BABY TO BE DISPLAYED IN WAX FIGURE FORM AT MADAME TUSSAUD'S WORLD-FAMOUS WAX MUSEUM WAS SHILOH JOLIE-PITT, DAUGHTER OF YOU-KNOW-WHO.

THE FIRST PERSON TO GO OVER NIAGRA FALLS IN A BARREL MUST HAVE BEEN A VERY BRAVE MAN. BUT IT WASN'T A MAN AT ALL. IN 1901, ANNIE EDISON TAYLOR WAS THE FIRST PERSON EVER TO DO IT AND SURVIVE. ANNIE CLAIMED SHE WAS 43 YEARS OLD, BUT GENEOLOGICAL RECORDS PROVED SHE WAS ACTUALLY 63 YEARS OLD AT THE TIME (!) ANNIE'S FIRST WORDS, UPON BEING FISHED OUT OF THE WATER, WERE "NO ONE OUGHT EVER DO THAT AGAIN".

A BROKEN LASER POINTER THAT SOME GUY CALLED PIERRE OMIDYAR SOLD FOR $14.83 IN 1995. BIG DEAL, RIGHT? NOTHING SIGNIFICANT THERE. EXCEPT FOR THE FACT THAT THIS WAS THE FIRST OBJECT EVER SOLD ON eBAY.

THE FIRST PILOT DURING HISTORY'S FIRST FATAL PLANE CRASH WAS KIND OF IRONIC. IT WAS MR. ORVILLE WRIGHT, OF WRIGHT BROTHERS FAME. IT OCCURED ON SEPTEMBER 17, 1908.

WE'VE ALL BECOME SO USED TO SEEING MID-SEASON REPLACEMENT SHOWS ON T.V., IT'S NOTHING NEW. BUT IT WAS A NEW IDEA IN 1966, WHEN THE FIRST MID-SEASON RELACEMENT T.V. SHOW PREMIERED. ADAM WEST TOOK THE TITLE ROLE IN A CAMPY, COMIC BOOK-TYPE SHOW CALLED BATMAN. AND, AS WE ALL KNOW, THE SHOW WAS A SMASH!

PLAYBOY, AS WE ALL KNOW, HAS FEATURED SOME OF THE MOST GORGEOUS WOMEN IN THE WORLD ON ITS COVERS. BUT WHO WAS THE FIRST MAN TO APPEAR ON THE COVER? IN APRIL OF 1964, THIS STRANGE HONOR WENT TO ACTOR PETER SELLERS.