An airplane mechanic invented Slinky while he was playing with engine parts and realized the possible secondary use for the springs.
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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 oil used by jewelers to lubricate clocks and watches costs about $3,000 a gallon.
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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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In the early 1960's, Porsche commercially manufactured farm tractors.
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First four countries to have television: England, the U.S., the U.S.S.R., and Brazil.
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The IRS processes more than 2 billion pieces of paper each year.
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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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