Whale oil was used in automobile transmissions as late as 1973.
56
Surgeons who grew up playing video games make 37 percent fewer mistakes.
250
There's an "anti-smartphone" called John's Phone which can only make and receive calls.
7
The Queen Mary - the grandest vessel of her day - had many of her vital components made by car manufacturer Skoda!
23
More than a billion transistors are manufactured every second.
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First four countries to have television: England, the U.S., the U.S.S.R., and Brazil.
47
Windmills always turn anti-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland!
184
A small airplane can fly backwards.
75