The Burj Khalifa building at Dubai is so tall that the Sun sets several minutes later on the top floo

It takes only about 8 minutes for the Space Shuttle to accelerate to a speed of more than 27 359 km/hou

Some companies use retina-tracking to see which products get noticed by shoppers within first 10 seconds

Two Japanese inventors have created a device that stops people from talking it s called the Speech Jamme

The name of the first airplane flown at Kitty Hawk by the Wright Brothers on Dec 17 1903 was Bird of Prey

26% of iPhones are made by Samsung which happens to be Apple`s biggest competitor in the smartphone market

The first FAX machine was patented in 1843 33 years before Alexander Graham Bell demonstrated the telephone

Because of heavy traffic congestion Julius Caesar banned all wheeled vehicles from Rome during daylight hours

There is a Photo Blocker Speed camera number plate Spray graphic that hides a license plate from speed cameras

Birthday cards that sing have more computing power than the computers used by the Allied Forces in World War II

Ferenc Szisz from Romania driving a Renault won the first Formula One Grand Prix held at Le Mans France in 1906

Revolvers cannot be silenced because of all the noisy gasses which escape the cylinder gap at the rear of the barrel

The first vending machines in the US dispensed chewing gum and were installed in New York City train platforms in 1888

For each second of operation during lift-off the space shuttle s engines consume enough fuel to power two million cars

Air conditioning wasn’t invented to cool homes or offices It was invented to control humidity in a printing plant