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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Whale oil was used in automobile transmissions as late as 1973.
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Castor oil is used as a lubricant in jet planes.
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The first hard drive available for the Apple II had a capacity of only 5 megabytes.
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Originally, Nintendo was a playing card manufacturer.
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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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Attics were invented in Attica.
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Energy is being wasted if a toaster is left plugged in after use.
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