The first hard drive available for the Apple II had a capacity of only 5 megabytes.
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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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Technically speaking, crystal glass is actually a Liquid that flows very slowly.
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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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The Queen Mary - the grandest vessel of her day - had many of her vital components made by car manufacturer Skoda!
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The ball on top of a flagpole is called a 'truck'.
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Castor oil is used as a lubricant in jet planes.
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Whale oil was used in automobile transmissions as late as 1973.
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