Thomas Alva Edison patented almost 1,300 inventions in his lifetime!
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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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More steel in the United States is used to make bottle caps than to manufacture automobile bodies.
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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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A toaster uses almost half as much energy as a full-sized oven.
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It takes six months to build a Rolls Royce...and 13 hours to build a Toyota.
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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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The Queen Mary - the grandest vessel of her day - had many of her vital components made by car manufacturer Skoda!
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