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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Whale oil was used in automobile transmissions as late as 1973.
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More than a billion transistors are manufactured every second.
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Mico headphones read your brainwaves and select music based on your state of mind.
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The life boat was patented in 1845!
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The ball on top of a flagpole is called a 'truck'.
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The United States produces enough plastic film annually to cover the entire state of Texas.
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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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