-- A person can live
without food for about a
month, but only about a
week without water.
If the amount of water in
your body is reduced by just 1%, you'll feel thirsty.
If it's reduced by 10%,
you'll die.
-- Money notes are not
made from paper, they are
made mostly from a
special blend of cotton
and linen. In 1932, when a
shortage of cash occurred in Tenino, Washington,
USA, notes were made out
of wood for a brief
period.
-- Joseph Niepce
developed the world's
first photographic image
in 1827. Thomas Edison
and W K L Dickson
introduced the film camera in1894. But the
first projection of an
image on a screen was
made by a German priest.
In 1646, Athanasius
Kircher used a candle or oil lamp to project hand-
painted images onto a
white screen.
-- Did you know the first
bicycle that was made in
1817 by Baron von Drais
didn't have any pedals?
People walked it along.
-- Gottlieb Daimler also built the world's first taxi in 1897. It was called the Daimler Victoria and had a taxi meter.On 16 June of that year the taxi was delivered to Stuttgarttransportation entrepreneur Friedrich Greiner who used it to start the world's first motorized taxi company.
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