Attics were invented in Attica.
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A small airplane can fly backwards.
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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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Castor oil is used as a lubricant in jet planes.
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Jumbo jets use 4,000 gallons of fuel to take off.
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Originally, BMW was an airplane engine manufacturer.
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In 1998, Sony accidently sold 700,000 camcorders that had the technology to see through people's clothes.
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Future biotechnology could be used to trick a prisoner's mind into thinking they have served a 1,000 year sentence in only eight hours, a group of scientists have claimed.
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