1) The longest-running TV show in history is "The Simpsons," which has been on the air since 1989 and has over 700 episodes.

2) The world's oldest known recipe is for beer and is over 4,000 years old.

3) The Bank of England, established in 1694, is the central bank of the United Kingdom and one of the oldest central banks in the world.

4) The first commercially available digital camera, the Dycam Model 1, was introduced in 1990 and had a resolution of 376 x 240 pixels.