The ball on top of a flagpole is called a 'truck'.
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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 fully loaded supertanker traveling at normal speed takes a least twenty minutes to stop.
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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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The life boat was patented in 1845!
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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 oil used by jewelers to lubricate clocks and watches costs about $3,000 a gallon.
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