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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Genghis Khan exempted the poor and clergy from taxes, encouraged literacy, and established free religion, leading many peoples to join his empire before they were even conquered.
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While pumpkins are typically orange, they can also be green, white, red, gray, and even blue.
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Scientists at the Zhejiang University in China have developed an ultra-light material known as carbon aerogel.
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In 2012, redditor laporkenstein forged his own wedding ring out of a Gibeon meteorite.
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Leonardo Da Vinci made a robotic lion in 1515 that would walk, sway, open its mouth and move its tail - it even had a compartment that opened to present flowers.
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Before making Finding Nemo, the animation gurus at Pixar Studios had to take a graduate class in fish biology and oceanography.
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