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in 2008, Japan invented a silent wasabi fire alarm that wafts wasabi vapour. In a test, 93% of occupants woke up within 2 minutes.

The first United States coast to coast airplane flight occurred in 1911 and took 49 days
When airplanes were still a novel invention, seat belts for pilots were installed only after the consequence of their absence was observed to be fatal - several pilots fell to their deaths while flying upside down
An airplane’s “blackbox”‘ is a device which records conditions and events on an air vessel. A “blackbox” is actually orange in color to make it more visible in the wreckage. The term black box might come from its charred appearance after an air crash
A 747-400 has six million parts (half of which are fasteners) made in 33 different countries
Seventy-five thousand engineering drawings were used to produce the first 747
The outer skin of an aeroplane is only 5 mm thick. Only 7.5 in (19 cm) separate the passengers from the outside
During takeoff, when full of high pressure air, the takeoff weight is increased by about a ton

Chess was invented in Iran
There are more than a thousand trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion ways a chess game can be played. ( 10¹²⁰). That is more than the number of electrons in the universe
The Queen in chess was originally a male prime minister and could only move 1 square diagonally. Her power grew during the Renaissance period.
The folding chess board was invested by a priest
The rook is named from an Arabic word rukh, meaning chariot. During the Middle Ages, when chariots were no longer in use, the rook was gradually modified to look more like the turret of a castle.
The word “checkmate” comes from the Persian phrase “shah mat,” which means “the king is defeated.”
Lewis Carrol’s novel “Through the Looking Glass” was based on a chess game, much the way “Alice in Wonderland” was based on playing cards

There are more bicycles than cars in the world
A long time ago, bicycles were faster than cars
The first bicycles were made without pedals
The first bicycle was called a hobbyhorse
The fastest cyclist is Olympian John Howard. He rode at an amazing 245.08 km/h (152.2 mph) by slipstreaming a car
Car tyres were modified out of bicycle tyres

Bill Gates’ house was designed using a Macintosh computer
Bill Gate had a SAT score of 1590. The top score for the test is 1600
Bill Gates earns $250 every second; that’s about $20 million a day and $7.8 billion a year
By the age of 17, Gates had sold his first computer program, a time-tabling system for his high school, for $4,200

Tetris has sold over 40 million copies worldwide, since it began in 1982.That provided the creator 800 million in revenues

When the cd was invented, it was decided that a cd should be long enough to hold beethoven’s Ninth Symphony at any tempo which was precisely 72 minutes

Contrary to belief, Thomas Crapper did not invent the modern flushing toilet. He did however, patent 3 modifications to the toilet

Almost 70% of the world’s zippers are made in Japan. (YKK. Take a look at your zipper now)
Canada has claimed the zipper to be No. 8 on its list of Greatest Canadian Inventions