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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More steel in the United States is used to make bottle caps than to manufacture automobile bodies.
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Scientists in China have built a prototype high-speed maglev train that is theoretically capable of reaching speeds of up to 1,800 mph (2,900 km/h).
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The United States produces enough plastic film annually to cover the entire state of Texas.
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Thomas Alva Edison patented almost 1,300 inventions in his lifetime!
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Kleenex tissues were originally used as filters in gas masks.
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The first alarm clock could only ring at 4 a.m.
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