Attics were invented in Attica.
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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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Whale oil was used in automobile transmissions as late as 1973.
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The oil used by jewelers to lubricate clocks and watches costs about $3,000 a gallon.
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The first hard drive available for the Apple II had a capacity of only 5 megabytes.
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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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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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Scientists in China have built a prototype high-speed maglev train that is theoretically capable of reaching speeds of up to 1,800 mph (2,900 km/h).
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