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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Thomas Alva Edison patented almost 1,300 inventions in his lifetime!
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Castor oil is used as a lubricant in jet planes.
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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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In 1998, Sony accidently sold 700,000 camcorders that had the technology to see through people's clothes.
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Surgeons who grew up playing video games make 37 percent fewer mistakes.
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