The first alarm clock could only ring at 4 a.m.
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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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The American Automobile Association was founded for the sole purpose of warning motorists of police speed traps!
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It would take twenty new mid-size cars to generate the same amount of pollution that a mid-size 1960's car did.
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The life boat was patented in 1845!
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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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Kleenex tissues were originally used as filters in gas masks.
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Castor oil is used as a lubricant in jet planes.
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