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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Attics were invented in Attica.
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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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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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The first hard drive available for the Apple II had a capacity of only 5 megabytes.
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Car airbags kill 1 person for every 22 lives that they save.
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More than a billion transistors are manufactured every second.
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The first alarm clock could only ring at 4 a.m.
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