The first alarm clock could only ring at 4 a.m.
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A small airplane can fly backwards.
75
There’s an internet-enabled jacket which gives you a “hug” every time a Facebook friend likes your status.
12
More steel in the United States is used to make bottle caps than to manufacture automobile bodies.
55
The electric chair was invented by a dentist!
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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.
10
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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Whale oil was used in automobile transmissions as late as 1973.
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