Students at MIT developed a wristband that can regulate your “thermal comfort”, which could possibly eliminate the need for central heating and cooling.
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The first alarm clock could only ring at 4 a.m.
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It takes six months to build a Rolls Royce...and 13 hours to build a Toyota.
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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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Windmills always turn anti-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland!
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The oil used by jewelers to lubricate clocks and watches costs about $3,000 a gallon.
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The life boat was patented in 1845!
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A small airplane can fly backwards.
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