Pierre Jaquet-Droz, a watchmaker, 240 years ago invented a robot that could write, and the parts could be interchanged to say whatever you want.
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The Simpsons are responsible for popularizing the word 'meh'.
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Fingers prune underwater not because of them absorbing the water or washing away the oil, but because of an evolutionary trait caused by the brain to enhance the grip of your fingers underwater.
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Passengers on the Beijing subway can pay with plastic bottles.
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‘Fracture putty’ is a material being developed that when packed in & around a bone fracture, provides full load bearing strength within days.
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Between 2007 and 2012, Bill Gates gave away $28 billion; saving 6 million lives.
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In 2013, the Netherlands scheduled 19 prisons to be closed due to a lack of criminals.
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