The ball on top of a flagpole is called a 'truck'.
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A toaster uses almost half as much energy as a full-sized oven.
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Future biotechnology could be used to trick a prisoner's mind into thinking they have served a 1,000 year sentence in only eight hours, a group of scientists have claimed.
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The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
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The first hard drive available for the Apple II had a capacity of only 5 megabytes.
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Any modern jet is capable of breaking the sound barrier.
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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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The electric chair was invented by a dentist!
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