The ball on top of a flagpole is called a 'truck'.
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Whale oil was used in automobile transmissions as late as 1973.
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The average car produces a pound of pollution every 25 miles!
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The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
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To have your picture taken by the very first camera you would have had to sit still for 8 hours!
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A fully loaded supertanker traveling at normal speed takes a least twenty minutes to stop.
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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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