In 1898, when this cake was baked, Orville and Wilbur Wright were running a bicycle store, reading about birds and thinking how cool it would be to build a flying machine.
Guinness World Records calls this 113-year-old Victorian era confection the "World's Oldest Cake." Hitler's bombs caused...
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