The 16th century Escorial palace of King Phillip II of Spain had 1,200 doors. The world’s first travel agencies were Cox & Kings, founded in 1758, and Thomas Cook, founded in 1850. A dog was the first in space and a sheep, a duck and a rooster the first to fly in a hot air [...]

The amount of time that people spend on travel has been consistent at 1,1 hours per person per day in all societies. Traffic jams of New York, San Francisco and Paris are well known – beaten only by those in Seattle where a driver annually spends 59 hours stuck in traffic. Traffic jams are nothing [...]

The order of the planets, starting closest to the sun: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune. The one place where a flag flies all day, never goes up or comes down, and does not get saluted, is the moon. Earth is not round; it is slightly pear-shaped. The North Pole radius is 44mm [...]