Originally, BMW was an airplane engine manufacturer.
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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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A fully loaded supertanker traveling at normal speed takes a least twenty minutes to stop.
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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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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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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 Google driverless car has only encountered two accidents. The first it was rear ended at a stop sign, and the second was when a human was behind the wheel.
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