Foray into Friday. 1. The world’s largest shrimp is on display at the Old Spanish Fort Museum in Pascagoula. 2. Barq’s Root Beer was invented in Biloxi in 1898 by Edward Adolf Barq, Sr. 3. Mrs. Mamie Thomas was the first female rural mail carrier in the United States, using a buggy to deliver mail to the area southeast of Vicksburg in 1914. 4. Still have your first teddy bear? Thank Theodore Roosevelt. On a hunting expedition in 1902 in Sharkey County, President Roosevelt refused to shoot a captured bear, an act which resulted in the creation of the teddy bear. 5. In 1929, H.T. Merrill from Iuka performed the world’s first round trip trans-oceanic flight.