The first alarm clock could only ring at 4 a.m.
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The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
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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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First four countries to have television: England, the U.S., the U.S.S.R., and Brazil.
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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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Windmills always turn anti-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland!
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A fully loaded supertanker traveling at normal speed takes a least twenty minutes to stop.
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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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