The life boat was patented in 1845!
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The oil used by jewelers to lubricate clocks and watches costs about $3,000 a gallon.
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All GPS units sold in the civilian market have to be programmed to deactivate themselves if they detect they are travelling faster than 1200 MPH or are above 60,000 feet in altitude to prevent them being used in intercontinental ballistic missiles.
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The first hard drive available for the Apple II had a capacity of only 5 megabytes.
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Future biotechnology could be used to trick a prisoner's mind into thinking they have served a 1,000 year sentence in only eight hours, a group of scientists have claimed.
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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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