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    The ball on top of a flagpole is called a 'truck'.
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    An airplane mechanic invented Slinky while he was playing with engine parts and realized the possible secondary use for the springs.
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    Technically speaking, crystal glass is actually a Liquid that flows very slowly.
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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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    In 1998, Sony accidently sold 700,000 camcorders that had the technology to see through people's clothes.
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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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    Car airbags kill 1 person for every 22 lives that they save.
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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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