The ball on top of a flagpole is called a 'truck'.
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More than a billion transistors are manufactured every second.
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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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The American Automobile Association was founded for the sole purpose of warning motorists of police speed traps!
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All GPS units sold in the civilian market have to be programmed to deactivate themselves if they detect they are travelling faster than 1200 MPH or are above 60,000 feet in altitude to prevent them being used in intercontinental ballistic missiles.
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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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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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