Whale oil was used in automobile transmissions as late as 1973.
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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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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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Scientists in China have built a prototype high-speed maglev train that is theoretically capable of reaching speeds of up to 1,800 mph (2,900 km/h).
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UFO sightings have reduced by over 80% since the introduction of smartphones and public access to HD video.
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The average car produces a pound of pollution every 25 miles!
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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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