A Citreon 2CV with an oil leak once travelled 500 miles through Italy after its gearbox was filled with bananas!
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Originally, BMW was an airplane engine manufacturer.
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The first alarm clock could only ring at 4 a.m.
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The ball on top of a flagpole is called a 'truck'.
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The United States produces enough plastic film annually to cover the entire state of Texas.
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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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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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Thomas Alva Edison patented almost 1,300 inventions in his lifetime!
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