Passengers on the Beijing subway can pay with plastic bottles.
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In 2012, as phone booths become increasingly obsolete because of mobile phones, a Japanese artist has turned several booths in Osaka into aquariums.
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In 1989, a British company made a laptop with a graphical user interface, a 60 hour battery life, SSD storage, and a touchpad.
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Scientist Niels Bohr was “given a house next door to the Carlsberg brewing company, and had a pipeline running from the brewery into the house so that he could have a never-ending supply of fresh beer on tap”.
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Elephants are among the most emotional creatures in the world - they have even been known to rescue other animals, such as trapped dogs.
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The Simpsons are responsible for popularizing the word 'meh'.
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There is a sea snail that wears a suit of iron plated armor. It is the only known animal to use iron sulphide as skeletal material.
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There are glasses which allow a red-green color-blind person to see colors the way everyone else does.
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