In 1998, Sony accidently sold 700,000 camcorders that had the technology to see through people's clothes.
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The first alarm clock could only ring at 4 a.m.
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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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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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Technically speaking, crystal glass is actually a Liquid that flows very slowly.
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It takes six months to build a Rolls Royce...and 13 hours to build a Toyota.
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Future biotechnology could be used to trick a prisoner's mind into thinking they have served a 1,000 year sentence in only eight hours, a group of scientists have claimed.
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