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Wednesday, 18 February 2026
18 facts about Internet
18 facts about Internet
A global network of unlimited possibilities
The internet is now more than 30 years old. During this time, it has developed in a direction unimaginable to those who witnessed its creation. Initia ...

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Steel
The first all-steel bridge is the Eads Bridge in St. Louis, USA.
Construction began in 1867 and was completed in 1874 at a cost of about $10 million. It is a combine ...
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Internet
The first registered Internet domain was symbolics.com.
It was registered on 15th March 1985. Today it serves as a commemorative site for the event.
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Kerosene lamp
Naphtha, one of the lighter (0.78-0.81 g/cm3) fractions of petroleum, is almost as old as medicine.
Its use is first reported as early as the ninth century by the Persian physician, alchemist, and phi ...
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Steel
More than 1.9 billion tons of steel are produced annually.
This means that approximately 5.2 million metric tons of steel are produced every day.
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Three Gorges Dam
The Three Gorges Dam can store 39 trillion cubic meters of water.
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Antonov An-225 Mriya
The An-225 has 32 wheels in a three-wheel arrangement.
The main landing gear consists of 7 two-wheel sets on each side while the front landing gear consist ...
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Internet
The first image on the Internet is a work of art made in Photoshop and exported to .gif format.
It depicts four women, members of the Geneva CERN lab’s comedy troupe Les Horrible Cernettes. As with the first website, it was posted by Tim Berners-Lee.
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Antonov An-225 Mriya
The machine’s international air code is UR-82060 and the call sign is ADB350F.
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Antonov An-225 Mriya
The range of a fully fueled aircraft is 15.400 kilometers with an empty payload.
Mriya’s range with a load of 200 tons drops to 4000 kilometers.
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Kerosene lamp
After an unsuccessful first attempt to use kerosene in a structurally unsuitable oil lamp, Łukasiewicz and the tinsmith Bratkowski constructed a prototype kerosene lamp.
This lamp was massive, consisting of a cylindrical tin tank for kerosene. It served as a protection ...
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24 facts about Antonov An-225 Mriya
24 facts about Antonov An-225 Mriya
Like a phoenix from ashes
It is the heaviest though not the largest of the aircraft constructed to date. Although it was created in the communist realities of the USSR, and its ...
14 facts about steel
14 facts about steel
Just a bit of carbon changes everything
Steel is a highly versatile and durable material used in a wide range of industries, including construction, automotive, aerospace, and manufacturing. ...
12 facts about Three Gorges Dam
12 facts about Three Gorges Dam
The biggest hydroelectric power plant on Earth
The Three Gorges Dam is most certainly one of the biggest undertakings in human history. Constructed on the Yangtze River in China, it is the largest ...
13 facts about Kerosene lamp
13 facts about Kerosene lamp
A Polish invention
The kerosene lamp was the invention of a brilliant pharmacist, a Pole, Ignacy Lukasiewicz. As an employee of a pharmacy selling kerosene for medical p ...