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 Google driverless car has only encountered two accidents. The first it was rear ended at a stop sign, and the second was when a human was behind the wheel.
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First four countries to have television: England, the U.S., the U.S.S.R., and Brazil.
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Henry Ford produced the model T only in black because the black paint available at the time was the fastest to dry.
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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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Attics were invented in Attica.
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It would take twenty new mid-size cars to generate the same amount of pollution that a mid-size 1960's car did.
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