Scientists are learning from the 1700-year-old Lycurgus Cup, which changes colour thanks to nano particles.
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An underwater forest off the coast of Alabama that is 50,000 years old was uncovered by Hurricane Katrina.
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There's a bar in Ireland (presently named Sean’s Bar) that was opened in 900AD.
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It's still possible to see the division between East and West Germany due to different light bulbs.
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If Earth's history was condensed into twenty-four hours, life would've appeared at around 4am, land plants at 10:24pm, dinosaur extinction at 11:41pm, and human history would’ve began at 11:58:43pm.
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Scientists have revived a flowering plant from a fruit stored away in permafrost by Arctic ground squirrel 32,000 years ago.
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A Kodak engineer constructed the first digital camera in 1975. They didn't want to go digital. They went bankrupt in 2012.
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The dildo was invented at least 22,000 years before the wheel.
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