The life boat was patented in 1845!
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If a car is travelling at 55 miles per hour it will travel 56 feet before the driver can shift his foot from the accelerator to the brake.
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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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The first hard drive available for the Apple II had a capacity of only 5 megabytes.
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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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There’s an internet-enabled jacket which gives you a “hug” every time a Facebook friend likes your status.
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It would take twenty new mid-size cars to generate the same amount of pollution that a mid-size 1960's car did.
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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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