More steel in the United States is used to make bottle caps than to manufacture automobile bodies.
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The first alarm clock could only ring at 4 a.m.
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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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In the early 1960's, Porsche commercially manufactured farm tractors.
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Kissenger is a pig-shaped robotic device that lets you kiss someone over the internet.
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Thomas Alva Edison patented almost 1,300 inventions in his lifetime!
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Castor oil is used as a lubricant in jet planes.
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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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