A toaster uses almost half as much energy as a full-sized oven.
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The life boat was patented in 1845!
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Technically speaking, crystal glass is actually a Liquid that flows very slowly.
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The IRS processes more than 2 billion pieces of paper each year.
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Students at MIT developed a wristband that can regulate your “thermal comfort”, which could possibly eliminate the need for central heating and cooling.
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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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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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