Thomas Alva Edison patented almost 1,300 inventions in his lifetime!
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Scientists in the UK are creating a smartphone app that will enable users to test for STDs.
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In the early 1960's, Porsche commercially manufactured farm tractors.
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Windmills always turn anti-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland!
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The oil used by jewelers to lubricate clocks and watches costs about $3,000 a gallon.
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Future biotechnology could be used to trick a prisoner's mind into thinking they have served a 1,000 year sentence in only eight hours, a group of scientists have claimed.
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The average car produces a pound of pollution every 25 miles!
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Any modern jet is capable of breaking the sound barrier.
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