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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The Queen Mary - the grandest vessel of her day - had many of her vital components made by car manufacturer Skoda!
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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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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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Originally, Nintendo was a playing card manufacturer.
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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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