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That parents have to pay for their newborns' first names, which price depends on the involved letters.My brother is named Colas, a quite uncommon name in France, which is pretty close to a very common one, Nicolas.I had just met a friend of my girlfriend of the time, and she found it really strange. I put on an embarrassed face and told her that well, my parents did not have enough money left to buy the N and the I.She did not understand what I meant, and I went on explaining that parents have to pay for each letter in the baby's first name, and that the N and the I are both very expensive letters.My parents did not expected to have a second child when I was born, so they had already used most of their money buying those two expensive letters for my first name. They consequently had very little money to spend for my brother's.They of course regretted this quite unfair decision very much and I myself felt a bit ashamed that most of my parents' money was spent on my name and so little on my brother's. It was obviously a very sensitive topic in my family, worsened by the fact that it was reminded to us each time someone called our names...She was so sorry and it was so hard not to laugh, that I had to tell her the truth soon after. I still don't know how it worked so well, though.

Not very many. It’s an expensive trip. Also, it’s politically problematic. When Professor Dajani arranged a 30 person trip to Auschwitz,Students at Al Quds University—where Dajani was the head of the American Studies Department and library director—boycotted him, claiming that he was “trying to sell Palestinians the Zionist story,” or was “collaborating with the Israelis to undermine Palestinian nationalism.” Dajani knew to take things seriously when he started receiving threatening letters at his office. Should Palestinians Visit Nazi Concentration Camps?Here’s one of the people who went on the trip.When we returned from Poland, the condemnation of our trip—and of Professor Dajani himself—in the media, and on Facebook and Twitter, was deafening. Equally deafening was the silence of my fellow travelers, who were so cowed into muteness by the virulence of the criticism that only a couple came to Professor Dajani’s defense. A Palestinian Student Defends Her Visit to Auschwitz

This is a printing press. Once we got that, knowledge could disseminate to the masses. Before, only the very rich could super-specialize. That limited the number of brains working on a problem. Everybody else —including those 1:billlion super-geniuses— spent their lives shackled (metaphorically or literally) to a plow, a hammer or an ax and went un-recognized, un-tapped and unfulfilled.Before the printing press, dissemination of knowledge happened through people in candle-lit rooms, transcribing information one letter at a time with a quill & inkwell. Only the very wealthy could afford to be educated and that was less than 5% of the population, and even then, most of them focused on leadership, rhetoric or religion. Once the printing press was invented, knowledge became prosaic and affordable for the middle class. Still, it was rather expensive. But it was cheap enough that everybody could get a bible in their home and most people could have at least a few books of reference, thus, nearly all could learn to read (and perform basic mathematics). This meant that those rare, rare minds that were super-smart, super-creative and/or super-motivated could be identified (or self-identify) and focus on inventing, solving and discovering things that were never even pondered before.Then the Industrial Revolution happened. The IR created so much surplus wealth that the wealth provided massive surfeit into tax coffers. Those tax coffers, round-about 150 years ago, could be tapped to begin building things like highways and public schools. Those public schools increased literacy to >90%. Once “everybody” (or thereabouts) could read, those ambitious enough or ingenious enough to disrupt previous industries and/or invent new ones, were free to do so. Before, they’d languish in illiteracy or —as mentioned before— remain tied to physical jobs just to survive.