More than a billion transistors are manufactured every second.
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The ball on top of a flagpole is called a 'truck'.
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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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More steel in the United States is used to make bottle caps than to manufacture automobile bodies.
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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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Car airbags kill 1 person for every 22 lives that they save.
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If a car is travelling at 55 miles per hour it will travel 56 feet before the driver can shift his foot from the accelerator to the brake.
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There’s an internet-enabled jacket which gives you a “hug” every time a Facebook friend likes your status.
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