Whale oil was used in automobile transmissions as late as 1973.
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Contrary to popular belief, putting sugar in a car's gas tank will NOT ruin its engine.
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Mico headphones read your brainwaves and select music based on your state of mind.
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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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Kissenger is a pig-shaped robotic device that lets you kiss someone over the internet.
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More than a billion transistors are manufactured every second.
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The Google driverless car has only encountered two accidents. The first it was rear ended at a stop sign, and the second was when a human was behind the wheel.
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A fully loaded supertanker traveling at normal speed takes a least twenty minutes to stop.
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