The ball on top of a flagpole is called a 'truck'.
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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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The first hard drive available for the Apple II had a capacity of only 5 megabytes.
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The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
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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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A small airplane can fly backwards.
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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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There's an "anti-smartphone" called John's Phone which can only make and receive calls.
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