Students at MIT developed a wristband that can regulate your “thermal comfort”, which could possibly eliminate the need for central heating and cooling.
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The life boat was patented in 1845!
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Castor oil is used as a lubricant in jet planes.
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Energy is being wasted if a toaster is left plugged in after use.
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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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First four countries to have television: England, the U.S., the U.S.S.R., and Brazil.
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The average car produces a pound of pollution every 25 miles!
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