1) The term "bull market" refers to a period of rising stock prices, while a "bear market" refers to a period of falling stock prices.

2) The world's oldest known recipe is for beer and is over 4,000 years old.

3) The Treaty of Tordesillas, signed in 1494, divided the newly discovered lands outside of Europe between Spain and Portugal, leading to the colonization of the Americas.

4) The windshield wipers were invented by a woman named Mary Anderson in 1903.