Scientists in the UK are creating a smartphone app that will enable users to test for STDs.
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A small airplane can fly backwards.
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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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An airplane mechanic invented Slinky while he was playing with engine parts and realized the possible secondary use for the springs.
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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 first hard drive available for the Apple II had a capacity of only 5 megabytes.
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Attics were invented in Attica.
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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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