Whale oil was used in automobile transmissions as late as 1973.
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Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page have expressed their desire to see the search engine become artificial intelligence itself. To achieve that goal, they created the highly-protected “X lab.”
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More than a billion transistors are manufactured every second.
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Originally, BMW was an airplane engine manufacturer.
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Students at MIT developed a wristband that can regulate your “thermal comfort”, which could possibly eliminate the need for central heating and cooling.
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Any modern jet is capable of breaking the sound barrier.
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There's a Mumbai-based pizzeria that now delivers pizza by drone.
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