Whale oil was used in automobile transmissions as late as 1973.
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Mico headphones read your brainwaves and select music based on your state of mind.
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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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A fully loaded supertanker traveling at normal speed takes a least twenty minutes to stop.
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First four countries to have television: England, the U.S., the U.S.S.R., and Brazil.
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Kleenex tissues were originally used as filters in gas masks.
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The electric chair was invented by a dentist!
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