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The speed of light is 186,000 miles per second, which is like traveling from New York to L.A. 30 times every second.
There are 48 monorails worldwide. The first monorail debuted in 1825 and was powered by a horse.
The Panama Canal officially opened in 1914, after 30 years of labor that lost an estimated 30,000 lives. The canal is comprised of three sets of locks and two man-made lakes. On average, it takes a ship eight to 10 hours to pass through the canal, from one ocean to the other.
The giant tortoise has the longest life span of all animals, living about 177 years in captivity.
Hermes (aka Mercury) is the god of travelers, wind, commerce, thieves, manual arts and eloquence.
Inventions of motion in communication: 1436, the printing press; 1835, Morse code and the telegraph; 1876, the telephone; 1877, the phonograph; 1889, film; 1909, radio; 1927, television; 1969, the original Internet; 1972, pay cable (HBO); 1975, consumer computers; 1981, Beta.
The Nile River is 4,132 miles long, flows at an average speed of 4 knots (4 nautical miles per hour), and is the only major river that flows North.
In 1924, a group of three aircraft successfully circumnavigated the Earth together in a trip that took 175 days.
When legendary explorer Ponce de Leon set sail, he was looking for the Fountain of Youth. He discovered Florida instead.
Famous bridges: Paul McCartney’s, from the middle of the Beatles’ A Day in the Life and San Francisco’s Golden Gate, designed by Joseph Baermann Strauss.