"Henry Ford demanded that parts suppliers send him parts in very specifically sized wooden boxes with very specifically placed holes and handles. These boxes were disassembled with care, without using crowbars, and the boxes were then used in the manufacturer of panels and floorboards for the Model T.
The wooden scraps that did remain were burned into charcoal and resold as Ford Charcoal, later becoming Kingsford Charcoal, a popular brand today."
That's just amazing.
"Cleopatra lived closer in time to the first moon landing than to the building of the Great Pyramid."
"We are closer to the T-Rex in number of years than the T-Rex was to the Stegosaurus."
"In 1903 the Wright brothers flew for 59 seconds. 38 years later the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. 28 years after that, we landed on the moon. We went from gliding a few feet off the ground for less than a minute to launching rockets out of orbit, traveling for hundreds of thousands of miles, landing on the moon, and then returning, all within a single lifetime."
and the most jaw-dropping of all:
"The Sony Vaio logo shows the change from analog to digital."