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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After Germany surrendered in WW2, people in Moscow partied until the entire city actually ran out of vodka.
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The full moon causes a tidal wave to roll up the Amazon river once in day and once in night for a period of only three weeks in a year. This results in continuous 4m high wave that can be surfed for up to 13km.
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MIT has developed a camera that captures the speed of light at a trillion frames per second.
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