An airplane mechanic invented Slinky while he was playing with engine parts and realized the possible secondary use for the springs.
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Attics were invented in Attica.
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A Citreon 2CV with an oil leak once travelled 500 miles through Italy after its gearbox was filled with bananas!
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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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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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First four countries to have television: England, the U.S., the U.S.S.R., and Brazil.
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The ball on top of a flagpole is called a 'truck'.
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