More steel in the United States is used to make bottle caps than to manufacture automobile bodies.
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The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
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Thomas Alva Edison patented almost 1,300 inventions in his lifetime!
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Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis had an online multiplayer mode.
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Whale oil was used in automobile transmissions as late as 1973.
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An airplane mechanic invented Slinky while he was playing with engine parts and realized the possible secondary use for the springs.
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All GPS units sold in the civilian market have to be programmed to deactivate themselves if they detect they are travelling faster than 1200 MPH or are above 60,000 feet in altitude to prevent them being used in intercontinental ballistic missiles.
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