There’s an internet-enabled jacket which gives you a “hug” every time a Facebook friend likes your status.
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Putting your car alarm remote under your chin or beside your head increases its range.
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If you place a ripe banana next to a green tomato, the tomato will ripen due to the ethylene gas produced by the banana.
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Scientists have revived a flowering plant from a fruit stored away in permafrost by Arctic ground squirrel 32,000 years ago.
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Pierre Jaquet-Droz, a watchmaker, 240 years ago invented a robot that could write, and the parts could be interchanged to say whatever you want.
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In 1943, a Pan Am Airline chef snuck whiskey into passengers' coffee to warm them up on a winter flight. When asked what kind of coffee they were being served, he improvised "Irish Coffee," creating the now-famous cocktail.
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