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    Whale oil was used in automobile transmissions as late as 1973.
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    It takes six months to build a Rolls Royce...and 13 hours to build a Toyota.
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    More than a billion transistors are manufactured every second.
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    In 1998, Sony accidently sold 700,000 camcorders that had the technology to see through people's clothes.
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    Hitachi's ATM that Sterilizes and Irons Bills
    In the mid-90s, Hitachi produced an ATM that sterilized bills by heating them to 200 degrees Celsius, then ironed them before dispensing.
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    Attics were invented in Attica.
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    Surgeons who grew up playing video games make 37 percent fewer mistakes.
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    Future biotechnology could be used to trick a prisoner's mind into thinking they have served a 1,000 year sentence in only eight hours, a group of scientists have claimed.
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