In 1989, a British company made a laptop with a graphical user interface, a 60 hour battery life, SSD storage, and a touchpad.
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There's a regenerative candle that creates a new candle as it melts.
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Paul McCartney dreamed the melody of "Yesterday" one night and immediately wrote the music the next morning. He then looked around for a month to make sure that he didn't subconsciously plagiarize it from somebody else.
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Passengers on the Beijing subway can pay with plastic bottles.
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In 2012, redditor laporkenstein forged his own wedding ring out of a Gibeon meteorite.
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You can hear the blood flowing through your ears if you find a quiet place and cover them tightly.
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‘Fracture putty’ is a material being developed that when packed in & around a bone fracture, provides full load bearing strength within days.
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