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[wall_rus]

Tina Fey might as well have done that first vid.

Palin......"Americans invented the first oil well".

Who really invented the first oil well?

347 A.D. Oil wells are drilled in China up to 800 feet deep using bits attached to bamboo poles.

1815 Oil is produced in United States as an undesirable by-product from brine wells in Pennsylvania.

1848 First modern oil well is drilled in Asia, on the Aspheron Peninsula north-east of Baku, by Russian engineer F.N. Semyenov.

http://www.sjgs.com/history.html