The first alarm clock could only ring at 4 a.m.
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To have your picture taken by the very first camera you would have had to sit still for 8 hours!
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Contrary to popular belief, putting sugar in a car's gas tank will NOT ruin its engine.
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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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If a car is travelling at 55 miles per hour it will travel 56 feet before the driver can shift his foot from the accelerator to the brake.
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The United States produces enough plastic film annually to cover the entire state of Texas.
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Future biotechnology could be used to trick a prisoner's mind into thinking they have served a 1,000 year sentence in only eight hours, a group of scientists have claimed.
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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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