Ayrton Senna’s excuse for hitting a brick wall during the Dallas Grand Prix in 1984 was that “the wall must have moved,” and he was right
An Argentinean engineer could have developed a “rainmaking machine” as early as the 1930s, though there’s no trace of it today
In 1st century A.D., Hero of Alexandria designed the first vending machine–it dispensed holy water after insertion of a coin
Salisbury Cathedral could possess the world’s oldest working mechanical clock, still capable of chiming the hour
Britain: The Principality of Sealand a pirate “micro-state” & band of Dutch & German mercenaries armed with assault rifles and charged the platform with a speedboat, jet skis, & helicopters