The ball on top of a flagpole is called a 'truck'.
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A Citreon 2CV with an oil leak once travelled 500 miles through Italy after its gearbox was filled with bananas!
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The first alarm clock could only ring at 4 a.m.
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Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis had an online multiplayer mode.
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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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Thomas Alva Edison patented almost 1,300 inventions in his lifetime!
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All GPS units sold in the civilian market have to be programmed to deactivate themselves if they detect they are travelling faster than 1200 MPH or are above 60,000 feet in altitude to prevent them being used in intercontinental ballistic missiles.
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