The ball on top of a flagpole is called a 'truck'.
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The first alarm clock could only ring at 4 a.m.
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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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Thomas Alva Edison patented almost 1,300 inventions in his lifetime!
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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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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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Contrary to popular belief, putting sugar in a car's gas tank will NOT ruin its engine.
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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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