Whale oil was used in automobile transmissions as late as 1973.
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The first hard drive available for the Apple II had a capacity of only 5 megabytes.
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The blueprint for a floating city has just been approved by the largest port construction and design company in China. It's entirely self-sustainable, and extends underwater.
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The average car produces a pound of pollution every 25 miles!
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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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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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More steel in the United States is used to make bottle caps than to manufacture automobile bodies.
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In 1998, Sony accidently sold 700,000 camcorders that had the technology to see through people's clothes.
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