The Queen Mary - the grandest vessel of her day - had many of her vital components made by car manufacturer Skoda!
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To have your picture taken by the very first camera you would have had to sit still for 8 hours!
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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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In the early 1960's, Porsche commercially manufactured farm tractors.
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Sony researchers have developed a refrigerator that only opens when you smile.
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The normal static electricty shock that zaps your finger when you touch a doorknob is usually between 10,000 and 30,000 volts!
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A fully loaded supertanker traveling at normal speed takes a least twenty minutes to stop.
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