The ball on top of a flagpole is called a 'truck'.
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Students at MIT developed a wristband that can regulate your “thermal comfort”, which could possibly eliminate the need for central heating and cooling.
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Future biotechnology could be used to trick a prisoner's mind into thinking they have served a 1,000 year sentence in only eight hours, a group of scientists have claimed.
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The oil used by jewelers to lubricate clocks and watches costs about $3,000 a gallon.
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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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Whale oil was used in automobile transmissions as late as 1973.
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A Citreon 2CV with an oil leak once travelled 500 miles through Italy after its gearbox was filled with bananas!
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