Contrary to popular belief, putting sugar in a car's gas tank will NOT ruin its engine.
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All GPS units sold in the civilian market have to be programmed to deactivate themselves if they detect they are travelling faster than 1200 MPH or are above 60,000 feet in altitude to prevent them being used in intercontinental ballistic missiles.
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Whale oil was used in automobile transmissions as late as 1973.
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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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Sony researchers have developed a refrigerator that only opens when you smile.
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Future biotechnology could be used to trick a prisoner's mind into thinking they have served a 1,000 year sentence in only eight hours, a group of scientists have claimed.
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The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
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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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