Whale oil was used in automobile transmissions as late as 1973.
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Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis had an online multiplayer mode.
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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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It takes six months to build a Rolls Royce...and 13 hours to build a Toyota.
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A fully loaded supertanker traveling at normal speed takes a least twenty minutes to stop.
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Any modern jet is capable of breaking the sound barrier.
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Thomas Alva Edison patented almost 1,300 inventions in his lifetime!
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Sony researchers have developed a refrigerator that only opens when you smile.
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