A small airplane can fly backwards.
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Whale oil was used in automobile transmissions as late as 1973.
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Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis had an online multiplayer mode.
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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.
10
The life boat was patented in 1845!
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First four countries to have television: England, the U.S., the U.S.S.R., and Brazil.
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More steel in the United States is used to make bottle caps than to manufacture automobile bodies.
55
The first hard drive available for the Apple II had a capacity of only 5 megabytes.
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