Countries of the World

If you never want to look for your keys again, you should try making a mental note of where you put them. Don’t just fling them on the table but put them down carefully and say to yourself, “I put my keys on the kitchen table next to the bananas”. This’ll help you remember them more easily.

When the Amazon Kindle was first released, it sold out in five-and-a-half hours. The groundbreaking e-reader remained out of stock for 5 months! The device's name came from branding consultants Michael Cronan and Karin Hibma, who suggested ‘Kindle’, meaning to light a fire.

The most famous sleuth in history is instantly recognisable by his cape and deerstalker – and yet, this isn’t the way he is described in the books. Holmes would only don such an outfit for cases in the countryside, and his cap is never identified as a deerstalker.