Whale oil was used in automobile transmissions as late as 1973.
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It takes six months to build a Rolls Royce...and 13 hours to build a Toyota.
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Surgeons who grew up playing video games make 37 percent fewer mistakes.
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More than a billion transistors are manufactured every second.
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Attics were invented in Attica.
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Car airbags kill 1 person for every 22 lives that they save.
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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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