The United States produces enough plastic film annually to cover the entire state of Texas.
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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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Sony researchers have developed a refrigerator that only opens when you smile.
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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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It takes six months to build a Rolls Royce...and 13 hours to build a Toyota.
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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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Students at MIT developed a wristband that can regulate your “thermal comfort”, which could possibly eliminate the need for central heating and cooling.
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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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