Thomas Alva Edison patented almost 1,300 inventions in his lifetime!
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Kissenger is a pig-shaped robotic device that lets you kiss someone over the internet.
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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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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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Scientists in China have built a prototype high-speed maglev train that is theoretically capable of reaching speeds of up to 1,800 mph (2,900 km/h).
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Henry Ford produced the model T only in black because the black paint available at the time was the fastest to dry.
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More than a billion transistors are manufactured every second.
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