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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Whale oil was used in automobile transmissions as late as 1973.
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Thomas Alva Edison patented almost 1,300 inventions in his lifetime!
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The United States produces enough plastic film annually to cover the entire state of Texas.
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Sony researchers have developed a refrigerator that only opens when you smile.
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Kleenex tissues were originally used as filters in gas masks.
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