Whale oil was used in automobile transmissions as late as 1973.
56
Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis had an online multiplayer mode.
-2
Thomas Alva Edison patented almost 1,300 inventions in his lifetime!
144
A toaster uses almost half as much energy as a full-sized oven.
33
More than a billion transistors are manufactured every second.
-25
If a car is travelling at 55 miles per hour it will travel 56 feet before the driver can shift his foot from the accelerator to the brake.
25
The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
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