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    The life boat was patented in 1845!
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    The first hard drive available for the Apple II had a capacity of only 5 megabytes.
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    Kleenex tissues were originally used as filters in gas masks.
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    There's a Mumbai-based pizzeria that now delivers pizza by drone.
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    Surgeons who grew up playing video games make 37 percent fewer mistakes.
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    Hitachi's ATM that Sterilizes and Irons Bills
    In the mid-90s, Hitachi produced an ATM that sterilized bills by heating them to 200 degrees Celsius, then ironed them before dispensing.
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    Bluetooth Name
    Bluetooth Name
    Bluetooth is named after the Danish King Harald "Bluetooth" who ate so many blueberries that his teeth stained blue. The wireless protocol is named after him because of his ability to unite warring Scandinavian factions, just as Bluetooth unites wireless devices. The Bluetooth logo is also a combination of the King's runic initials.
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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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