Students at MIT developed a wristband that can regulate your “thermal comfort”, which could possibly eliminate the need for central heating and cooling.
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After Germany surrendered in WW2, people in Moscow partied until the entire city actually ran out of vodka.
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Sony researchers have developed a refrigerator that only opens when you smile.
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A koi fish, named "Hanako", was owned by several individuals over many years and lived to be 226 years old, dying in 1977.
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There is a fake village with fake shops and restaurants that is actually a care home for elderly dementia sufferers in the Netherlands.
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In 1999, Harvard physicist Lene Hau was able to slow down light to 17 meters per second and in 2001, was able to stop light completely.
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A Swiss man replaced his car's broken heater with a fully functional wood burning stove.
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There are glasses which allow a red-green color-blind person to see colors the way everyone else does.
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