The Queen Mary - the grandest vessel of her day - had many of her vital components made by car manufacturer Skoda!
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Scientists in China have built a prototype high-speed maglev train that is theoretically capable of reaching speeds of up to 1,800 mph (2,900 km/h).
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Attics were invented in Attica.
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More steel in the United States is used to make bottle caps than to manufacture automobile bodies.
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Scientists in the UK are creating a smartphone app that will enable users to test for STDs.
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The first hard drive available for the Apple II had a capacity of only 5 megabytes.
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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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