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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 ball on top of a flagpole is called a 'truck'.
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    Any modern jet is capable of breaking the sound barrier.
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    A fully loaded supertanker traveling at normal speed takes a least twenty minutes to stop.
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    Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page have expressed their desire to see the search engine become artificial intelligence itself. To achieve that goal, they created the highly-protected “X lab.”
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    Car airbags kill 1 person for every 22 lives that they save.
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    Bluetooth Name
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    Bluetooth is named after the Danish King Harald "Bluetooth" who ate so many blueberries that his teeth stained blue. The wireless protocol is named after him because of his ability to unite warring Scandinavian factions, just as Bluetooth unites wireless devices. The Bluetooth logo is also a combination of the King's runic initials.
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    The life boat was patented in 1845!
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