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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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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The first hard drive available for the Apple II had a capacity of only 5 megabytes.
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There's an "anti-smartphone" called John's Phone which can only make and receive calls.
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A small airplane can fly backwards.
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More steel in the United States is used to make bottle caps than to manufacture automobile bodies.
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UFO sightings have reduced by over 80% since the introduction of smartphones and public access to HD video.
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