The Queen Mary - the grandest vessel of her day - had many of her vital components made by car manufacturer Skoda!
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If a car is travelling at 55 miles per hour it will travel 56 feet before the driver can shift his foot from the accelerator to the brake.
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Thomas Alva Edison patented almost 1,300 inventions in his lifetime!
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Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page have expressed their desire to see the search engine become artificial intelligence itself. To achieve that goal, they created the highly-protected “X lab.”
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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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There's an "anti-smartphone" called John's Phone which can only make and receive calls.
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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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Castor oil is used as a lubricant in jet planes.
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