The ball on top of a flagpole is called a 'truck'.
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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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Jumbo jets use 4,000 gallons of fuel to take off.
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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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In 1998, Sony accidently sold 700,000 camcorders that had the technology to see through people's clothes.
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To have your picture taken by the very first camera you would have had to sit still for 8 hours!
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More than a billion transistors are manufactured every second.
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