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But what if I told you there was a certain type of pineapple that is worth thousands of dollars?

This was because they weren't grown in Europe, so when world explorers brought back this rare and exotic new fruit, supply was low and demand was high.

In fact, the structure these rare pineapples are grown in was unearthed in 1991 and renovated just two years later to a working state.

The second pineapple ever grown in the Lost Gardens was gifted to Queen Elizabeth II in honor of her 50th wedding anniversary.

London was founded by the Romans.

It was called Londinium by the Romans.

For a long time, London was a small city.

In the year AD 61, the city was attacked and destroyed.

Another famous old part of Greater London is Westminster, which was always a different city from the City of London.

The government of Germany was in Berlin for many years.

The city was split into West Berlin and East Berlin after World War Two.

After the Berlin Wall was built in 1961 very few people were allowed to cross from East Berlin into West Berlin.

Walmart is a family-owned business that was founded in 1962 by Sam Walton in Rogers, Arkansas.

Sam Walton was a businessman and former employee at JCPenny.

Walmart was incorporated as Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

In 1969, Walmart was listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 1970.

Walmart's revenue in 2014 was $476 billion.

The net profit of Walmart in 2014 was $16 billion, which was equal to the gross revenue of the Gap, Banana Republic, and Old Navy around the world.

The result of all of this hard work was Airbnb, a revolutionary online marketplace for renting rooms and apartments.

Airbnb was formed in San Francisco in 2008, and it's in that very city where Airbnb plays host to it's most loyal customers and fans, with the Sanfranciscan's on average spending five and half days in each property and splashing out a whopping $1,045 for their stay.

Breakfast was undoubtedly crucial in getting Airbnb off the ground;

Airbnb's first year was very successful for the three founders, it changed their lives that year and kept a roof over their heads, and they only had four hundred guests!

That was an astounding 11 billion miles (17 billion kilometers) away from Earth.

It was built in different areas by different dynasties to protect different territorial borders.

The First Emperor of Qin was not the first to build the Great Wall.

The majestic Great Wall was built with wisdom, dedication, blood, sweat, and tears.

In December 1987 the Great Wall was placed on the World Heritage List by UNESCO .

It was designed to be at least three times the height of a man.

Some of the Wall was built along ridges, which make it look taller.

The Great Wall was not just a wall.

It was an integrated military defensive system with watchtowers for surveillance, fortresses for command posts and logistics, beacon towers for communications, etc.

Badaling Great Wall was the first section of the wall to open for tourists.

Nobody knows when yogurt was discovered, its origins have been lost in the mists of time.

What we do know for sure is that fermented milk was already being used in prehistoric times.

Legend tells that yogurt was discovered because a shepherd, forgetting some milk in one of these skins for a while, when he finally remembered it, found it transformed : into something denser and tastier.

Apart from the legend, the most likely inventor of yogurt was yogurt itself.

The oldest writings mentioning yogurt were by Pliny the Elder, who said that some people knew how to thicken the milk into something which was sour but tasty.

Yogurt was brought to the US in the early 1900s and steadily increased in popularity as a health food item over the next several decades.

In 1919, Carasso, who was from Ottoman Salonika, started a small yogurt business in Barcelona, Spain, and named the business Danone ("little Daniel") after his son.

Yogurt with added fruit jam was patented in 1933 by the Radlická Mlékárna dairy in Prague.

The most yoghurt eaten in one minute is 1.685 kilograms (3.71 lbs) and was achieved by Andre Ortolf (Germany) in Augsburg, Germany, on 25 March 2017.

The Internet was developed in the United States by the "United States Advanced Research Projects Agency" (DARPA).

The Internet was first connected in October, 1969 and was called ARPANET.

The World Wide Web was created at CERN in Switzerland in 1990 by a British (UK) scientist named Tim Berners-Lee.

Sprite was developed in West Germany in 1959 as 'Fanta Klare Zitrone' (Clear Lemon Fanta) and introduced to the United States as Sprite in 1961.

Fanta Klare Zitrone was renamed Sprite in West Germany in 1968.

Sprite was manufactured as Coca-Cola's response to the popularity of 7 Up.

In the 1990's, Sprite launched the 'Jooky' ad campaign, which poked fun at other soft drinks and their lack of authenticity and bandwagon-driven style of advertising, foremost among the competitive soft drinks mocked was Pepsi.

In 2000, graffiti artist Temper was hired by Sprite to create a limited edition design in celebration of the millennium that appeared on 100 million cans distributed across Europe.

A Sprite is also the name for a type of small goblin, which was also the focus of one of the UK's more memorable Sprite adverts.

In 2012, Sprite was reformulated in France, removing 30% of the sugar and replacing it with the sweetener Stevia, lowering the total calorie count.

In 2004, the Android OS was developed with the backing of Google by Android Inc.

It was actually developed as a digital camera platform.

The first smartphone running Android was released in 2008, the HTC Dream or T-Mobile G1 depending on your country, it had a sliding keyboard.

In 2010 Sony Ericsson's LiveView watch was released, the device linked to Android phones to show and control things like the Twitter feeds, texts and media player.

Andy Rubin, Android's Co-creator, was responsible for the name choice.

Whilst at Apple, Andy was given the name for his love of robots.

At CES 2011 Android 3.0 Honeycomb was debuted on the Motorola XOOM.

It was completely redesigned for tablets and never ran on smartphones.

Honeycomb was a huge failure.

Android's significance in the mobile market was perfectly realized in 2009 when Eric Schmidt, Google CEO, was forced to resign from Apple's board of directors due to a conflict of interest and his inability to be involved in Apple's developments and future plans.

In 2015, Android's OS was on 81.61% of all Smartphones sold.

They worshiped a mysterious, unnamed god that was part of Jaguar and part human.

Mexico was named “New Spain” when Hernan Cortes conquered the territory from the Aztecs.

Hot chocolate was considered the sacred drink by the Aztecs.

Popcorn was domesticated 9,000 years ago in Mexico.

The oldest university in North America, the National University of Mexico, was established in 1551.

The Chichen Itza Pyramid in Mexico was named one of the new Seven Wonders of the World.

Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809– April 15, 1865) was an American politician.

He was the 16th President of the United States.

He was president from 1861 to 1865, during the American Civil War.

Just five days after most of the Confederate forces had surrendered and the war was ending, John Wilkes Booth assassinated Lincoln for being a tyrant.

Lincoln was the first president of the United States to be assassinated.

Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809, in Hodgenville, Kentucky, United States.

His family was very poor.

Although slavery was legal in Kentucky at that time, Lincoln's father, who was a religious Baptist, refused to own any slaves.

When Lincoln was seven years old, his family moved to Indiana.

In his childhood he helped his father on the farm, but when he was 22 years old he left home and moved to New Salem, Illinois, where he worked in a general store.

Later, he said that he had gone to school for just one year, but that was enough to learn how to read, write, and do simple math.

Abraham Lincoln was sometimes called Abe Lincoln or "Honest Abe" after he ran miles to give a customer the right amount of change.

Association football spread to many other parts of Europe, and was brought to the rest of the world with colonization.

In 1937, the first live coverage of a football match was shown on television.

Because Mercury was the fastest planet as it moved around the Sun, it is named after the Roman deity Mercury, the messenger of the gods.

The Caloris Basin is the largest impact crater on Mercury covering approximately 1,550 km in diameter and was discovered in 1974 by the Mariner 10 probe.

EBay was launched in 1995.

EBay was created by an Iranian-American computer programmer called Pierre Omidyar, in 1995.

At the age of 28, he was working on designing code for an online auction website originally called Auction Web.

Auction Web was a side project, for fun alongside his everyday job.

It wasn't until the website was getting too much traffic that he decided to launch as a business and re-branding it as eBay.

The first item to be sold on eBay was a broken laser pointer.

The broken laser pointer was an item laying around Omidyar's house, that he thought he would use to test out the site.

The first item sold in the UK was a CD.

The CD was by a German rock band called The Scorpions.

It was a copy of their single released in 1996 called "You & I".

EBay wasn't launched in the UK until 1999 which was 4 years after it was set up in the US.

There have been multiple, but the first person to reach a feedback score of 1 million was Jack Sheng.

The sometimes blinding and glaring yellow background was the original design for the interface of eBay and it was used up until the site changed to white.

But in a slow passive aggressive manner over time, they faded the yellow color until it eventually was back to being white.

This was in hope that customers would not notice the gradual change over time.

The most expensive item ever sold on eBay was a yacht.

In Snag, Yukon, the coldest temperature in Canada was recorded at -81.4 F (-63 C) which is roughly the same temperature as the surface of Mars!

Canada's iconic red and white maple leaf flag was designed to replace the Union Jack and first started being used in 1965.

There was a bear cub exported from Canada to the London Zoo in 1915 named Winnipeg.

Initially, Instagram was called Codename, but the name changed to Instagram before it was launched.

The first photo ever posted was by the co-founder, @kevin on July 16, 2010.

Instagram was bought by Facebook in 2012 for $1 billion dollars.

The first of many Google Doodles was an out-of-office message in 1998, the doodle was a man standing behind an O, the second in Goo.

Klingon was added as a Google language option in 2002.

The first snack given to employees was Swedish Fish in 1999.

Google at first was stored on ten 4GB hard drives in a Lego casing for easy storage expansion.

Originally the Google home page was aligned to the right and was very sparse as the founders didn't know HTML and wanted a simple interface.

Samsung initially sold noodles and other produce, it wasn't until 1970 that the first electrical product was sold by Samsung: a 12 inch Black & White TV.

Samsung's S8 was the first device to use the flagship Bixby system.

In 2012, Samsung invested $10.8 billion in Research and Development which was over 6% of the company's revenue which is around a ¼ of employees or 60,000 staff.

This makes you wonder whether it was originally called this, or whether its name was lost over the ages and replaced with the nearest geological landmark.

When Hiram Bingham stumbled upon the ruins of Machu Picchu in 1911, he was quick to share his discovery with the Western world.

A lesser known fact, though, is that he was actually led there by a Peruvian guide by the name of Melchor Arteaga.

In fact, Machu Picchu was never really lost.

Augusto Berns was most likely the first Westerner to reach Machu Picchu.

Its name comes from lap, as it was deemed to be placed on a person's lap when being used.

The laptop was created mainly for this particular reason.

The first laptop was made in 1981 by British Designer Adam osborn.

It was called the Grid Compass.

Grid's computer was one fifth the weight of any other computer used at that time.

Throughout its history, Seoul was known by a number of different names, and the name Seoul itself is believed to have originated from the Korean word for the capital city, Seoraneol.

The 'Adidas Superstar', which was originally intended for basketball, became hugely popular with skateboarders in the early 90s.

Adidas's Tubular line of sneaker was actually inspired by car tires and the "tubular snake" originally was created to emulate tires and their threading.

A pair of Adidas "jeans" sneakers was introduced, but interestingly enough, they didn't feature any denim.

President Abraham Lincoln was a bit of a crazy cat lady.

He was even known to feed Tabby directly from the table during formal dinners, much to his wife's displeasure!

The first cat to take a trip to space was called Félicette.

On the October 18, 1963 a black and white tuxedo cat named C 341 was rocketed out into space, making world history.

Upon its safe return it was decided that it deserved an actual name, and so it was named Félicette, after the popular cartoon character Felix the Cat.

The tallest horse ever was over seven hands taller than a normal horse.

Sampson was a Shire horse and the tallest on record.

The smallest horse was barely taller than a foot.

By contrast, the smallest horse ever was a tiny 14-inch pony from New Hampshire.

His name was Einstein.

The very first tweet was posted on March 21, 2006.

Jack Dorsey, one of Twitter's co-founders, was the first person to post anything to Twitter.

The "Fail Whale" was the name given to the page which used to show on the screen when servers had been overloaded.

It was a cartoon image of a whale being pulled out of water in a net by eight little birds - representative of Larry the Twitter bird.

After Bingham returned to Machu Picchu in 1912 and started excavating the site, he made the suggestion that it was used as a sanctuary for Virgins of the Sun, of the Inca religion.

It's no small surprise though, as the fabled mountain citadel was originally thought to be a sanctuary for the Chosen Women, who among other duties often ended up as human sacrifices.

This theory was debunked of course, but there are plenty of other locations within the Inca Empire where such things did occur.

Some have claimed it was a mountaintop fortress, the last bastion of the Inca warlords, while others believe it was a university and place of scholarship.

Based off all available evidence and the style in which Machu Picchu was constructed there is just one theory which is believed to be most likely.

The most powerful earthquake ever recorded on Earth was in Valdivia, Chile.

It has this name because Petra was carved into the red-rose limestone of Wadi Musa .

At the time, it was known as Amstelredam rather than Amsterdam.

As the village grew into a town and then a city, the network of canals running through it was further formed and shaped to help transport and trade - both with the outside world and within the city.

The video to first reach 1 billion views the fastest was Hello by Adele.

In Thailand, YouTube was blocked for 5 months in 2007 due to a 44 second video that showed pictures of the king being defaced.

Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich was the lucky winner of this bid.

Thanks to eBay, a new species was discovered.

In 2006 a type of sea urchin was listed after being found in the Pacific Ocean.

A British scientist and Zoologist named Simon Coppard came across the urchin and from the photo recognized that this was something new.

At the time, Coppard was working with The Natural History Museum in London and was able to confirm from the photo uploaded that the species was unidentified, making it a new discovery of sea urchin that he named Coelopleurus exquisitus.

The famous chocolate river from the original Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory film was made with 15,000 gallons of water mixed with chocolate and cream.

The man who created the Reese's Peanut Butter Cup was a farmer, by the name of Harry Burnett Reese, who was a former shipping foreman and dairy farmer for Milton Snavely Hershey, the founder of Hershey's chocolate.

The biggest chocolate sculpture ever made was a 10 foot high Easter egg weighing 4,484 lbs (2,034 kg) in Melbourne, Australia.

In 1991, a chocolate model ship was made in Barcelona measuring approximately 42.5ft long, 28ft tall and 8ft wide.

In the original Psycho film, the blood in the famous shower scene was actually chocolate syrup.

The 1920s saw inventors take their first test run with the "Linrrican Wonder", debuted Houdina Radio Control, it was a radio-controlled driverless car and was shown traveling through a traffic jam in New York City.

As with all futuristic ideas, the time at which those in the past thought the technology would exist was way off, like Back To The Future's predictions of hoverboards in 2015, Norman Bel Geddes in the 1930s thought the 1960s would be the era for the automated car, this was sadly not the case.

EUREKA also started the first real project aimed at creating autonomous vehicles from 1987 to 1995, it was called the Prometheus Project.

Throughout the 1990s, as I was but a child, scientists were developing more and more vehicles and technologies to go further, faster, and more autonomously than ever before.

These included the Carnegie Mellon University's Navlab project or "No Hands Across America" in 1995 which completed a 3,100 miles cross-country journey this was actually semi-autonomous though as the throttle and brakes were human-controlled for safety purposes.

Scotch whiskey can only be labeled as such if it was made and matured in Scotland.

The first football match was played in Scotland in 1872.

It was played at the West of Scotland Cricket Club.

Edinburgh, Scotland's capital, was the first city in the world to have its own fire brigade.

The first recorded sighting of the Loch Ness Monster was in 565 AD.

The Royal Canadian Mounted police which has 30,000 members, originated from the Mounted Police which was formed in 1873 which started with just nine officers.

Hawaiian pizza was not invented by the Hawaiians, but by a man from Ontario, Canada.

So much so, that there was an Apology Act passed in 2009 which made apologies inadmissible in court.

In 1750, Canada was originally called "New France." The name Canada is derived from "Kanata" which is a Huron-Iroquois word that means village or settlement.

Patented by Forrest Mars (yes, he was the son of the founder of Mars chocolate) and later co-owned by Bruce Murrie, the name of the chocolate product was derived from these two men.

Until 1950, there were no letters printed onto the pieces, and between 1950 and 1954, the letter 'm' was printed in black.

The color was changed to white in 1954 - the same year that peanut M&M's were introduced.

This was the result of a study that stated that red food dye was linked to cancers.

By 1987, the popular color was back on the shelves, and many customers were happy to hear that the orange pieces would remain there too.

The World Surfing Championship was first held in Sydney, Australia, in 1964.

John Batman was one of the founders of the city of Melbourne.

Prior to having its current name, the city was known as Batmania.

An Australian radio station called Joy Radio was established in 1993 and became the world's very first gay and lesbian radio station.

Contrary to popular belief, Crowe was actually born in New Zealand, but moved with his family to Australia when he was just four years old.

Samsung was established in 1938 which is exactly 38 years prior to Apple.

Its construction sector was responsible for constructing the world's tallest building the Burj Khalifa.

In January 2017, Lee Jae-yong Samsung's Chief, was questioned as part of South Korea's largest political corruption scandal according to the BBC over accusations of questionable donations.

Scotland had cave dwellers until 1915 when it was outlawed.

Construction started in 1826, but due to the lack of funds, was left unfinished in 1829.

The world's largest candy cane was created in 2011 and was 63 feet tall.

The first candy cane was made over 350 years ago.

The candy cane was first mentioned in association with Christmas in 1874.

Before this, each candy cane was made by hand.

Christopher Columbus was the first person to bring sugarcane to the New World.

Apparently, the view was so disappointing that there was no better name for it.

According to a survey conducted in Britain, around 10% of the population believed that the moon was closer than Australia.

The national floral emblem is the wattle, a flower that was selected in 1912.

Canberra was chosen to be the capital city as a result of an ongoing debate between Melbourne and Sydney over which would be the capital.

The World Wide Web was created at CERN in Switzerland in 1990 by a British (UK) scientist named Tim Berners-Lee.

The Caloris Basin is the largest impact crater on Mercury covering approximately 1,550 km in diameter and was discovered in 1974 by the Mariner 10 probe.

Spring dish gained immense popularity at the time of Tang and Song dynasty rule and in this period the dish was better known as five spice dish because of its hot and spicy flavor.

The spring roll recipe was a major feature in Chinese imperial menu.

Archimedes was a mathematician, inventor, and astronomer who was one of the most celebrated mathematicians of all time.

He was famous for getting so absorbed in his studies, that he forgot about social conventions.

We cannot be certain this entertaining anecdote is 100% true, but he was a genuinely great mathematician, who in many ways was centuries ahead of his contemporaries.

Archimedes was born in Syracuse, a Greek city state in Sicily.

He was educated at Alexandria, Egypt - famed for its knowledge and learning.

It was once believed that eating cheese before bed could cause nightmares, but in fact it had health benefits.

One thing we didn't love on our trip to Bali was the traffic congested main road.

The first pancake recipe that appeared in an English cookbook was in the 15th century.

It was done by Ross Mccurdy from Kingston, Washington, United States, on August 13, 2013.

2g was introduced in 1991.

3g was introduced in the early 2000s.

The first country to build drones was Israel, with Israel Aerospace Industries heading the charge in terms of export numbers.

In 1916, the first attempt at a powered UAV was the "Aerial Target".

It was created by Archibald Montgomery Low.

This was all captured by the drones' on-board camera.

The name "Hoi an" was adopted in 1595 by Nguyen hoang, who saw the commercial potential of the port city.

In English and other European languages, the town was known historically as Faifo.

This word is derived from Vietnamese Hội an phố (the town of Hội an), which was shortened to "Hoi-pho", and then to "Faifo".

By the 18th century, it was considered to be the best place to trade in all of Asia, according to Chinese and Japanese merchants.

You can view a 15th century shipwreck that was discovered in the 1990s, which was full of ceramic artefacts.

For several centuries Angkor was the center of the Khmer Kingdom.

Many research projects have been undertaken since the international safeguarding program was first launched in 1993.

The oldest horse lived over twice as long than he was supposed to.

However, the oldest domestic horse on record was Old Billy, who died at the age of 62.

The eagle featured on US currency was modeled on a real bald eagle named Peter who used to live on top of the US Mint.

After his death in 1836, Peter was stuffed and is still on display inside the very building upon which he once nested.

It was known to the ancient Romans, who named it after their god Jupiter, for causing lightning strikes on Earth.

When it was first formed, Jupiter was much hotter and was about twice its current diameter.

Released in 1987, the Segascope was a basic pair of 3-d glasses produced for the Sega Master System.

William Henry Gates was born on 28 October 1955, in Seattle, Washington.

His father William Gates Sr. was a senior lawyer, and his mother, Mary, served as an executive for a major bank.

However, Gates was more interested in pursuing his own coding, and when he saw an opportunity to found his own company, he dropped out of Harvard without finishing his course.

He was also involved in several aspects of Microsoft's business such as packing and sending off orders.

This was a breakthrough in operating software as it replaced text interfaces with graphical interfaces.

In 1921, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his contributions to theoretical physics and the evolution of Quantum Theory.

Einstein was a truly global man and one of the undisputed genius' of the Twentieth Century.

Eventually, he was asked to leave by the authorities because his indifference was setting a bad example to other students.

His first attempt was a failure because he failed exams in botany, zoology and languages.

The first mention of chips was in 1854 when a leading chef included "thin cut potatoes cooked in oil" in his recipe book, Shilling Cookery.

It was a collective name for steamed breads, grilled flatbreads, noodles, and various dumplings.

When journalists at the time asked soldiers why they were willing to fight in the war, the typical response was "for mom and apple pie".

She was a farmer and it's believed she developed a very new type of apple, when her apple pie already became widely popular.

The world famed energy drink Red Bull was created in Bangkok by Chaleo Yoovidhya in 1976.

At the time of his death in 2012, he was the third richest man in Thailand.

Saturn was named after the Roman god Saturnus (called Kronos in Greek mythology).

YouTube was founded on February 14th (Valentine's Day!), 2005 by three ex-PayPal employees.

It was originally funded with the bonuses that the employees received when eBay bought out PayPal.

The first ever YouTube video was uploaded on April 23, 2005.

Initially, YouTube was created to be a video dating site called "Tune In Hook Up.".

Only 18 months after YouTube was founded, Google bought it for $1.65 billion in stocks.

The city's name, originally Maynilad, is derived from that of the nilad plant, the name was shortened first to Maynila and then to its present form.

A dam was built in 13th century in the river Amstel (that's why the city is called Amsterdam).

The city was for the first time mentioned in 1275 by count Floris V, count of Holland and Zeeland who gave the people of Amsterdam some more freedom.

The city was one of the first cities in Western Europe to be fairly democratic: Wealthy citizens chose the leaders of the city.

Antwerp was also a major trading city, and when its people moved to Amsterdam, they took their trading networks with them.

In 1934, the International Badminton Federation was established as a formal governing body that continues to oversee the sport around the world.

Before badminton was called "badminton," it was referred to as shuttlecock and battledore.

Badminton made its Olympic debut at the 1992 games, and it was seen on television by over 1.1 billion people.

Even though badminton was invented in the 1800s, it did not become a popular sport in the United States until the 1930s.

The idea of an opportunity cost was first begun by John Stuart Mill.

When the Roman Empire was new, Rome was called the Eternal City because it was already very old.

Rome was built on Sun Hill, later named Palatine.

The Metro was built in 1900, and its total length is more than 200 km (120 mi).

Paris was the Capital of the French Empire which, as well as France, covered Spain, Belgium, Holland, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Italy, most of Germany and some of Austria, Croatia, Slovenia and Poland.

The next time it was captured was by the Nazi Germans in 1940.

It was repealed by the 21st amendment.

The phrase "rule of thumb" derives from the fact that brewers would use their thumb to determine if the liquid was at ideal temperature to add yeast.

Bourbon whiskey made primarily from corn was invented in America in the 18th Century.

In 1876, the red triangle logo for Bass Pale Ale was made the world's first trademark.

Contrary to urban legend, Jagermeister does not contain elk blood, however the founder was an avid hunter, and the name Jagermeister literally translates to "hunt master".

Whether it's staggering statistics or fun facts about how this social media platform was created, here are the top 10 facts about Twitter.

One of the original ideas for a name was "FriendStalker.".

The hashtag was first introduced in 2007.

However he was more interested in ensuring that people could freely use it so the idea would catch on quickly.

This decision was partly due to the increase in the number of tweets being posted.

The ancient River Nile was full of fish.

In medieval times, seafood was less prestigious than other animal meats, and often seen as merely an alternative to meat on fast days.

Still, seafood was the mainstay of many coastal populations.

The original type of sushi, nare-zushi, was first developed in Southeast Asia and then spread to southern China before its introduction to Japan sometime around the 8th century AD .

In the mid-1750s, the artificial refrigeration was started.

In the beginning of 1800s, it was developed.

The refrigeration system with vapor compression was established in 1834.

In 1854, the ice-making machine was invented for commercial production.

The home fridge was invented in 1913.

The highest snowfall ever recorded in a one year period was 31.1 meters (1224 inches) in Mount Rainier, Washington State, United States, between February 19, 1971 and February 18, 1972.

The aim for her was to reduce the loads of books that needed to carry by the students.

Her e-Reader was operated by the compressed air.

Though, this invention did not get into the reality, it was a strong step for the foundation of today's e-reader.

The original French baguette had a thin and long shape, the crust was not crispy and the core was thicker.

At that time, a baguette was an expensive dish, which was only served to the upper class or French, because wheat could not be planted in Vietnam due to the tropical weather and imported wheat flour was very expensive.

The baguette was one of them, and when Vietnamese tried the baguette they remade it by adding rice flour to the ingredients, which is always available in this agricultural country, made it shorter and baked it in a different way.

The dish was and is a staple food of the working markets in Vietnam way before it became a fashionable, a cheap and hearty dish available to the masses.

On this day in 2011, bánh mì was admitted into the Oxford English Dictionary, the reason behind Google's celebration of the influential sandwich.

Although the popularity of kimchi is still rising in the West, it is an ancient dish, dating about two thousand years back, when it was first mentioned in written documents.

It was originally called chimchae, literally translated to soaked vegetables.

Because kimchi was soaked only in brine or beef stock in the past.

It was a great opportunity to improve the city.

The best known of those buildings was designed by Antoni Gaudi.

Marilyn Monroe, baptized as Norma Jean Baker , was born in June 1926.

As a child, Marilyn Monroe's mother, Gladys Pearl Baker, was institutionalised and then Norma Jeane, lived an orphanage and had eleven different sets of foster parents.The traumatic childhood made her shy and reserved.

It was here that Marilyn got her first big break.

Photographer David Conover was covering the munitions factory to show women at work for the War effort.

He was struck by the beauty and photogenic nature of Monroe, and he used her in many of his photographs.

The company was originally founded in Malaysia and later moved its headquarters to Singapore.

In particular, his friend was concerned that his taxis may be taking an incorrect route or overcharging him.

When he presented the project to his professors, the comments he received were that this project was "difficult to implement" despite the success of other ride hailing services in the US such as Uber.

The app was also selected as the finalist at Harvard's Minimum Viable Product Funding award.

In January 2016, GrabTaxi was rebranded as "Grab", which encompasses all the company's products: GrabCar (personal cars), GrabBike (motorcycle taxis), GrabHitch (carpooling) and GrabExpress (last mile delivery) with a new, redesigned logo.

Widely regarded prior to this as the economic and cultural "capital" of the Netherlands, Amsterdam was only officially recognized as the capital in the early 80s.

Before this, despite a lack of clarity on the country's actual capital, Den Haag (The Hague) was considered to be the capital of the Netherlands as this is where the government resided (and still do to this day), making it the country's hub of political power.

Back when the city was being rapidly built up, the powers that be realized that, due to the premium value of house frontage on the canals and streets, they should tax house size on the width of the front, or façade.

Saint Andrew was a fisherman who was tortured and crucified on a "X" cross in the first Century BC.

The symbol has been used to represent Amsterdam since 1505 when Amsterdam was still a little fishing town.

She was a leading French modernist designer, whose patterns of simplicity and style revolutionised women's clothing.

She was the only designer to be listed in the Time 100 most influential people of the Twentieth Century.

Chanel was raised in an orphanage and taught to sew.

Chanel performed in clubs in Vichy and Moulins where she was called "Coco." .

It was a decade where women received the vote in several western countries.

Ho Chi Minh, who was both the prime minister and the president of Vietnam at different times, called Halong Bay 'the wonder that one cannot impart to others'.

Winston Churchill at one point was in danger of a Nazi assassination by an exploding bar of chocolate.

The film "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" was financed by Quaker Oats to promote its new Wonka Bar candy.

Andes Candies were called "Andy's Candies," after creator George Andrew Kanelos but it was changed after men didn't want to buy their partners chocolates with another man's name.

It was taken on Captain Robert Scott's first expedition to the Antarctic.

Chocolate milk was invented in Jamaica.

Venus was the first planet to have its motions plotted across the sky, as early as the second millennium BC and spins very slowly on its axis, it spins in the opposite direction to the other planets.

National Doughnut Day was not created by doughnut manufacturers.

Hong Kong was under British rule from 1842 to 1997.

The region was officially recognized as a free port in 1950.

This was a humongous burger weighing 777lbs.

It was named after the Roman God of the Sea.

Neptune was discovered by the astronomers, Urbain Le Verrier and John Couch Adams.

The planet was the first to be discovered by mathematical calculations instead of using a telescope.

The planet was visited by only one spacecraft, Voyager 2 on August 25, 1989.

Neptune once had a huge storm known as the "Great Dark Spot" which was discovered in 1989 by Voyager 2.

Leonardo was born an illegitimate son of a Florentine noble and peasant woman;

He was close with his pupils Salai and Melzi, but appeared to be mostly absorbed in his far reaching investigations, work and paintings.

In his day, contemporary reports indicated Da Vinci was a unique person, with a physical beauty, dignified presence and strong moral character.

A notable characteristic of Da Vinci was his wide ranging respect and reverence for truth, life and living creatures.

Synchronized swimming was popularized by actress Esther Williams in her "aqua musicals" of the 1940s and 1950s.

Swimming was known to be a noble skill for Japanese samurai.

In 1828, the first indoor swimming pool, St George's Baths was opened to the public.

By 1837, the National Swimming Society was holding regular swimming competitions in six artificial swimming pools, built around London.

The recreational activity grew in popularity and by 1880, when the first national governing body, the Amateur Swimming Association was formed, there were already over 300 regional clubs in operation across the country.

Bloomberg was founded in 1981 as Innovative Market Systems and has since grown into a major international operation employing more than 20,000 individuals.

The central component of the company-the Bloomberg terminal, which provides real-time market data and analytics - was already in place at the founding.

Even the infamous 2013 privacy breach, which inadvertently or otherwise allowed company reporters access to customers' personal information, was but a temporary blip.

The word software was first used in the late 1960s to emphasize on its difference from computer hardware, which can be physically observed by the user.

Before compact discs (CDs) or development of the Internet age, software was used on various computer data storage media tools like paper punch cards, magnetic discs or magnetic tapes.

The first "cheese cake" was created on the Greek island of Samos.

When the Romans conquered Greece, the cheesecake recipe was just one spoil of war.

Modern commercial American cream cheese was developed in 1872, when William Lawrence, from Chester, New York, while looking for a way to recreate the soft, French cheese Neufchâtel, accidentally came up with a way of making an "unripened cheese" that is heavier and creamier, other dairymen came up with similar creations independently.

New Yorkers say that cheesecake was not really cheesecake until it was cheesecake in New York.

The most expensive cheesecake sold for $4,592.42 (£3,496.44;3,955.57€) and was made by chef Raffaele Ronca (USA) at Ristorante Rafele in New York, NY, USA on October 30, 2017.

The 'Stan Smith', Adidas's most iconic sneaker, was originally intended to be named after Robert Haillet, the iconic French tennis star, and not Stanley Smith.

There was a park in Boston that was known as "Adidas Park" by locals where nothing but Adidas brand sneakers was allowed.

As a matter of fact, the Adidas Superstar was the first basketball shoe with a low top silhouette featuring an all leather upper portion.

The logo was first introduced in the Munich Olympics in 1972.

The brand wasn't originally known as Adidas, which is a portmanteau of the founder's named Adi Dassler, but was started under the name Gebrüder Dassler Schuhfabrik in 1924.

Basketball was played by using a soccer ball until 1929.

Muggsy Bogues was the shortest basketball player.

Kobe Bryant was only 17 when he entered the NBA.

Women's basketball was added to the Olympics in 1976.

Basketball was first played on December 21, 1891.