The first alarm clock could only ring at 4 a.m.
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The life boat was patented in 1845!
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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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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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Whale oil was used in automobile transmissions as late as 1973.
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More than a billion transistors are manufactured every second.
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There’s an internet-enabled jacket which gives you a “hug” every time a Facebook friend likes your status.
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