- ... that Tingmissartoq, Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh's Lockheed Sirius, was so christened by an Eskimo boy in Greenland, and that its name means "one who flies like a big bird"?
- ... that an electronic gear-shifting system for bicycles can shift faster than a traditional mechanical system and calibrate itself to minimize maintenance?
- ... that no electricity has been generated by the barge-mounted electric power generating station that was delivered to Ghana in 2002?
- ... that in 1966, Heinz Waaske created the smallest 135 film camera made to that date, the Rollei 35 (pictured)?
- ... that Salmson 2, along with the Breguet 14, was the main reconnaissance aircraft of the French army in the First World War?