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.

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle were set up on a blind date. They met at London’s Soho House, and it must have been a spectacular first date! Though Harry and Meghan haven’t disclosed the matchmaker’s identity, many suspect it's Harry’s childhood friend, Violet van Westenholz.

In some regions of Japan, traffic lights are red, yellow and blue instead of green. This is due to the Japanese language where for centuries, the same word, “ao”, was used to describe blue and green. A word for green has evolved later, but Japanese traffic law still uses the archaic term.