To have your picture taken by the very first camera you would have had to sit still for 8 hours!
308
The IRS processes more than 2 billion pieces of paper each year.
28
A fully loaded supertanker traveling at normal speed takes a least twenty minutes to stop.
27
The Queen Mary - the grandest vessel of her day - had many of her vital components made by car manufacturer Skoda!
23
There's a phone app called RoboRoach that allows you to remotely control a cockroach through a chip that you to manually implant into the unwitting critter.
10
Surgeons who grew up playing video games make 37 percent fewer mistakes.
250
First four countries to have television: England, the U.S., the U.S.S.R., and Brazil.
47
Scientists in China have built a prototype high-speed maglev train that is theoretically capable of reaching speeds of up to 1,800 mph (2,900 km/h).
1