The Queen Mary - the grandest vessel of her day - had many of her vital components made by car manufacturer Skoda!
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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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Attics were invented in Attica.
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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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The ball on top of a flagpole is called a 'truck'.
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A toaster uses almost half as much energy as a full-sized oven.
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Henry Ford produced the model T only in black because the black paint available at the time was the fastest to dry.
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The first hard drive available for the Apple II had a capacity of only 5 megabytes.
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