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Deep Blue became the first computer to defeat a reigning world chess champion when it beat Garry Kasparov in 1997.
The International Space Station is the most expensive object ever constructed and can be seen with the naked eye from Earth.
CRISPR gene editing technology allows scientists to precisely modify DNA sequences and has revolutionary potential in medicine.
The Concorde was the first supersonic passenger jet and could fly from New York to London in about 3.5 hours.
The Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity were designed for 90-day missions but operated for 6 and 14 years respectively.
Alan Turing is considered the father of modern computer science and was instrumental in breaking the Enigma code during World War II.
The Three Gorges Dam in China is the world's largest hydroelectric power station and can be seen from space.
The Wright Brothers' first flight at Kitty Hawk covered a distance shorter than the wingspan of a Boeing 747.
The Golden Gate Bridge uses about 80,000 miles of wire in its two main cables.
The first successful organ transplant was a kidney transplant performed between identical twins in 1954.
The Hoover Dam contains enough concrete to build a two-lane highway from San Francisco to New York City.
Marie Curie is the only person to have won Nobel Prizes in two different scientific fields — physics and chemistry.
The Large Hadron Collider at CERN is the largest and most powerful particle accelerator ever built, with a circumference of 17 miles.
The Burj Khalifa in Dubai is the tallest building in the world at 2,717 feet and has 163 floors.
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a collection of floating debris in the North Pacific that covers an area twice the size of Texas.
The Channel Tunnel between England and France is 31.4 miles long, with 23.5 miles running under the English Channel.
The Human Genome Project took 13 years and $2.7 billion to map the entire human genetic code.
The Voyager 1 spacecraft has traveled farther from Earth than any other human-made object.
Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary were the first confirmed climbers to reach the summit of Mount Everest on May 29, 1953.
The concept of paper money was first developed in China during the Tang Dynasty around 618 AD.
Approximately 40% of the world's currency is held in the form of U.S. dollars.
The world's most valuable brand is Apple, valued at over $880 billion.
The average cost of a 30-second Super Bowl commercial has risen from $42,000 in 1967 to over $7 million today.
Warren Buffett made 99% of his wealth after the age of 50.
The Panama Canal generates about $3.4 billion in revenue annually for Panama.
Sweden is on track to become the world's first cashless society, with less than 1% of transactions using physical cash.
The U.S. dollar is the most traded currency in the world, involved in about 88% of all foreign exchange transactions.
Apple became the first company to reach a $3 trillion market valuation in 2022.
Japan's economy is the third largest in the world despite the country being smaller than California.
The New York Stock Exchange was founded in 1792 under a buttonwood tree on Wall Street.
Zimbabwe once printed a $100 trillion banknote during its hyperinflation crisis in 2008.
The global diamond industry is worth about $87 billion per year, but lab-grown diamonds are chemically identical to mined ones.
It costs the U.S. Mint about 2.7 cents to produce a single penny.
The most expensive item ever built is the International Space Station, costing over $150 billion.
Astronauts cannot burp in space because without gravity, gas does not separate from liquid in the stomach.
The coldest temperature ever recorded on Earth was minus 128.6 degrees Fahrenheit at Vostok Station in Antarctica.
Your fingernails grow about 3 millimeters per month, roughly four times faster than your toenails.
The longest place name in the world is Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu in New Zealand.
Venus is the only planet in our solar system that spins clockwise.
The average person laughs about 13 times a day.
It would take over 1,000 years to watch every video on YouTube.
Almonds are a member of the peach family.
A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
The average person will spend six months of their life waiting for red lights to turn green.
Octopuses have three hearts, nine brains, and blue blood.
The longest English word without repeating a letter is 'uncopyrightable.'
A bolt of lightning is six times hotter than the surface of the Sun.
The plastic tips on shoelaces are called aglets.
Bananas are curved because they grow toward the Sun.
The Eiffel Tower can grow up to 6 inches taller during summer because heat causes the iron to expand.