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    Whale oil was used in automobile transmissions as late as 1973.
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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 ball on top of a flagpole is called a 'truck'.
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    Windmills always turn anti-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland!
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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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    SnapChat
    SnapChat
    SnapChat was originally intended to be an app for sending nude pictures and was called 'Picaboo'.
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    Wind Turbine Trees
    Wind Turbine Trees
    After noticing the wind rustling and turning the leaves on trees, French entrepreneur Jérôme Michaud-Larivière designed wind turbine trees that could provide clean energy for urban settings.
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    It takes six months to build a Rolls Royce...and 13 hours to build a Toyota.
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