Whale oil was used in automobile transmissions as late as 1973.
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It takes six months to build a Rolls Royce...and 13 hours to build a Toyota.
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More than a billion transistors are manufactured every second.
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In 1998, Sony accidently sold 700,000 camcorders that had the technology to see through people's clothes.
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The ball on top of a flagpole is called a 'truck'.
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To have your picture taken by the very first camera you would have had to sit still for 8 hours!
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Kleenex tissues were originally used as filters in gas masks.
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Thomas Alva Edison patented almost 1,300 inventions in his lifetime!
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