There's a phone app called RoboRoach that allows you to remotely control a cockroach through a chip that you to manually implant into the unwitting critter.
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The life boat was patented in 1845!
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Jumbo jets use 4,000 gallons of fuel to take off.
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It would take twenty new mid-size cars to generate the same amount of pollution that a mid-size 1960's car did.
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An airplane mechanic invented Slinky while he was playing with engine parts and realized the possible secondary use for the springs.
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Kleenex tissues were originally used as filters in gas masks.
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The first alarm clock could only ring at 4 a.m.
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Thomas Alva Edison patented almost 1,300 inventions in his lifetime!
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