| The first vending machines in the US dispensed chewing gum and were installed in New York City train platforms in 1888. |
| On February 17, 1959, Vanguard II was the first satellite to send weather information back to Earth. |
| The full name of the Titanic ship is R.M.S. Titanic, which stands for Royal Mail Steamship. |
| The average 60-minute audio cassette tape has 562.5 feet of tape in it. |
| The standard escalator moves 120 feet per minute. |
| The Soviet Sukhoi-34 is the first strike fighter with a toilet in it. |
| Venice in Italy is built on 118 sea islets joined by 400 bridges. |
| Air conditioning wasn’t invented to cool homes or offices. It was invented to control humidity in a printing plant. |
| The first woman in space was Valentina Tereshkova, from the USSR, in June 1963. |
| The first manned spacecraft to be launched was the Soviet’s Vostok 1, which left Earth in 1961. |