A toaster uses almost half as much energy as a full-sized oven.
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A small airplane can fly backwards.
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Kleenex tissues were originally used as filters in gas masks.
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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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In 1998, Sony accidently sold 700,000 camcorders that had the technology to see through people's clothes.
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The United States produces enough plastic film annually to cover the entire state of Texas.
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More steel in the United States is used to make bottle caps than to manufacture automobile bodies.
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More than a billion transistors are manufactured every second.
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