The Rosetta Stone was written in three scripts — hieroglyphic, demotic, and Greek

The printing press was invented by Gutenberg around 1440 — but China had movable type 400 years earlier

Gutenberg's press, circa 1440, followed China's 1000-year-old movable type innovation

The word 'algorithm' comes from al-Khwarizmi, a 9th-century Persian mathematician

'Algorithm' derives from Al-Khwarizmi's name, pioneering mathematician

The number 1729 is the Hardy-Ramanujan number — the smallest expressible as the sum of two cubes in two ways

1729: smallest integer expressible as sum of two cubes in two distinct ways

The Fibonacci sequence appears in sunflower seed patterns, pinecones, and galaxy spirals

Fibonacci sequence manifests in natural spirals and growth patterns

The first alarm clock could only ring at 4 AM — invented by Levi Hutchins in 1787

Levi Hutchins created the first alarm clock in 1787, set to ring at 4 AM

QWERTY keyboard layout was designed to prevent typewriter jamming, not for speed

QWERTY was created to reduce mechanical jamming, not for typing efficiency