An airplane mechanic invented Slinky while he was playing with engine parts and realized the possible secondary use for the springs.
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A fully loaded supertanker traveling at normal speed takes a least twenty minutes to stop.
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The ball on top of a flagpole is called a 'truck'.
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There's a phone app called RoboRoach that allows you to remotely control a cockroach through a chip that you to manually implant into the unwitting critter.
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The Queen Mary - the grandest vessel of her day - had many of her vital components made by car manufacturer Skoda!
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Windmills always turn anti-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland!
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In 1998, Sony accidently sold 700,000 camcorders that had the technology to see through people's clothes.
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