The oil used by jewelers to lubricate clocks and watches costs about $3,000 a gallon.
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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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Kleenex tissues were originally used as filters in gas masks.
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A toaster uses almost half as much energy as a full-sized oven.
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The life boat was patented in 1845!
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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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The United States produces enough plastic film annually to cover the entire state of Texas.
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The first alarm clock could only ring at 4 a.m.
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