An airplane mechanic invented Slinky while he was playing with engine parts and realized the possible secondary use for the springs.
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It would take twenty new mid-size cars to generate the same amount of pollution that a mid-size 1960's car did.
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In the early 1960's, Porsche commercially manufactured farm tractors.
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There’s an internet-enabled jacket which gives you a “hug” every time a Facebook friend likes your status.
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Sony researchers have developed a refrigerator that only opens when you smile.
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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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A fully loaded supertanker traveling at normal speed takes a least twenty minutes to stop.
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