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Ketchup was once sold as medicine.
In the 19th century in the US, tomato sauce was bottled and sold in pharmacies under the promise of curing…
The first computer mouse was made of wood.
Invented by Douglas Engelbart in 1964, it was a block of solid wood with a single red button and metal wheels on the…
Facebook was once exclusive to Harvard.
It was called 'TheFacebook' and access was restricted to university students, expanding to the general public only…
The first emojis were created in Japan.
In 1999, Shigetaka Kurita designed 176 pictograms of 12x12 pixels to be used on a Japanese mobile internet platform.
The shortest song in the world is 1.3 seconds long.
The song 'You Suffer', by the band Napalm Death, entered the Record Books as the shortest, consisting of a single…
Disney is the largest buyer of fireworks in the world.
The various theme parks around the world consume industrial quantities of pyrotechnics for their daily nighttime…
The 'Play' symbol indicates tape movement.
The arrow points to the right because, in the first reel and cassette recorders, the physical tape ran from left to…
Monopoly was created against monopolies.
It was called 'The Landlord's Game' and was invented in 1903 to demonstrate the economic and social dangers of…
Wi-Fi uses the same frequency as a microwave.
The 2.4 GHz frequency of routers is standard for wireless communications, being the same used by ovens to excite…
There are more cell phones than people in the world.
The rapid global adoption of smartphones has caused the number of active devices to surpass the total human…
The first computer ENIAC weighed 30 tons.
Created in the 40s, it was composed of thousands of valves and switches, occupying an entire room of about 167 square…
90% of the world's emails are spam.
The overwhelming majority of daily email traffic consists of unsolicited messages, scams, misleading advertising, or…
The word 'Google' originated from a spelling error.
The idea was based on the mathematical number 'Googol' (1 followed by 100 zeros), but the founders registered the…
The Bluetooth logo is a Viking rune.
It combines the Nordic runes Hagall and Bjarkan (initials of King Harald 'Bluetooth'), famous for uniting Danish and…
The first YouTube video is 18 seconds long.
It is called 'Me at the zoo', was uploaded by Jawed Karim (a co-founder), and shows him talking about elephants at a…
Australia has never had a civil war.
Since its federation and independence, the country has managed to resolve its political and social tensions without…
The iceberg that sank the Titanic took months to melt.
Due to the glacial temperatures of the North Atlantic, the massive block of ice that destroyed the ship remained…
The flag of Nepal is not rectangular.
It is the only non-quadrilateral national flag, featuring the shape of two overlapping pennants, representing the…
Alaska is the northernmost, westernmost, and easternmost state in the US.
Because of the Aleutian Islands, which cross the International Date Line, Alaska technically occupies the eastern and…
The Great Pyramid was the tallest building in the world for over 3800 years.
Built with almost 150 meters in height, it held the record until the construction of Lincoln Cathedral in England in…
The 'SOS' signal does not mean 'Save Our Souls'.
It was chosen only for its simplicity in Morse code (three dots, three dashes, three dots), making its transmission…
Easter Island got its name from the day of its discovery.
Dutch explorers spotted and landed on the island on Easter Sunday in 1722, immediately naming it after the date.
The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows or eyelashes.
Experts believe Da Vinci never painted them or that, due to the canvas's age and old cleanings, the hairs disappeared.
The human body emits visible light.
Through biochemical reactions (bioluminescence), we emit very weak photons, a thousand times lower than the human…