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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Kleenex tissues were originally used as filters in gas masks.
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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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Windmills always turn anti-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland!
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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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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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Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis had an online multiplayer mode.
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