The first real airport was built in the Croydon near London in 1928.
An ant can lift up to 50 times his own body weight, it can pull 30 times his own weight and when it is drunk it will always fall on its right side.
If there is a statue of a person on horseback in the park, and the horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle. If the horse has one front leg raised, the person died of wounds sustained in battle. If the horse has all of its legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
The magazine "Time" proclaimed Adolf Hitler "person of the year" in 1938.
The first computer was made in 1946 at the University of Pennsylvania. ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator And Calculator) had 18,000 electronic pipes, 30 tons and it needed 154 m2 of space.
The first sewing machine was invented by a British inventor Thomas Saint in 1790 and it was used for sewing leather.