Whale oil was used in automobile transmissions as late as 1973.
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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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To have your picture taken by the very first camera you would have had to sit still for 8 hours!
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More steel in the United States is used to make bottle caps than to manufacture automobile bodies.
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Thomas Alva Edison patented almost 1,300 inventions in his lifetime!
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There are only 14 blimps in the world.
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Surgeons who grew up playing video games make 37 percent fewer mistakes.
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The Queen Mary - the grandest vessel of her day - had many of her vital components made by car manufacturer Skoda!
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