The ball on top of a flagpole is called a 'truck'.
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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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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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Whale oil was used in automobile transmissions as late as 1973.
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Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis had an online multiplayer mode.
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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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A toaster uses almost half as much energy as a full-sized oven.
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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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