Whale oil was used in automobile transmissions as late as 1973.
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Surgeons who grew up playing video games make 37 percent fewer mistakes.
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A small airplane can fly backwards.
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About 39,000 gallons of water are used to produce the average car!
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A fully loaded supertanker traveling at normal speed takes a least twenty minutes to stop.
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Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page have expressed their desire to see the search engine become artificial intelligence itself. To achieve that goal, they created the highly-protected “X lab.”
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To have your picture taken by the very first camera you would have had to sit still for 8 hours!
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