1) The average person spends about 4 years of their life driving a car.

2) The first successful portable MP3 player, the Diamond Rio PMP300, was released in 1998 and could hold up to 60 minutes of music.

3) The film "Gone with the Wind" won eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture, and remains one of the highest-grossing films of all time when adjusted for inflation.

4) The Berlin Conference in 1884-1885 divided Africa among European powers and set the stage for the colonization of the continent.