Kleenex tissues were originally used as filters in gas masks.
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Car airbags kill 1 person for every 22 lives that they save.
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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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The first alarm clock could only ring at 4 a.m.
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Attics were invented in Attica.
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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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Whale oil was used in automobile transmissions as late as 1973.
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The electric chair was invented by a dentist!
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