There’s an internet-enabled jacket which gives you a “hug” every time a Facebook friend likes your status.
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Whale oil was used in automobile transmissions as late as 1973.
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A Citreon 2CV with an oil leak once travelled 500 miles through Italy after its gearbox was filled with bananas!
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Attics were invented in Attica.
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Surgeons who grew up playing video games make 37 percent fewer mistakes.
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A small airplane can fly backwards.
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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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