The life boat was patented in 1845!
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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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The first alarm clock could only ring at 4 a.m.
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Surgeons who grew up playing video games make 37 percent fewer mistakes.
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More than a billion transistors are manufactured every second.
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Car airbags kill 1 person for every 22 lives that they save.
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Kleenex tissues were originally used as filters in gas masks.
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Originally, Nintendo was a playing card manufacturer.
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