Whale oil was used in automobile transmissions as late as 1973.
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The first alarm clock could only ring at 4 a.m.
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Mico headphones read your brainwaves and select music based on your state of mind.
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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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Surgeons who grew up playing video games make 37 percent fewer mistakes.
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Henry Ford produced the model T only in black because the black paint available at the time was the fastest to dry.
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More steel in the United States is used to make bottle caps than to manufacture automobile bodies.
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Thomas Alva Edison patented almost 1,300 inventions in his lifetime!
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