Who Made It?

Next time you hit the gym, listen to some music! Music is believed to help improve workouts because it acts as a distraction, diverting the mind from fatigue. Music also helps boost your overall mood, escaping negative thoughts and allowing you to push forward in your workouts.

St Louis’s Gateway Arch is a 630-foot-tall monument that required an incredible level of exactitude. The monument’s two legs were erected separately, and if their measurements were off by as little as 1/64th of an inch, they would not have been able to join at the top. Many people suspected the structure would fail when the last piece was put in place, but fortunately, it didn’t.

‘The Life of Pi’, a novel written by Canadian author Yann Martel, was rejected by more than five publication houses before it was finally accepted. In 2001, it was finally published and won the Man Booker Prize for Fiction. It also won the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature in Best Adult Fiction. Over ten million copies of the novel have been sold worldwide.