First four countries to have television: England, the U.S., the U.S.S.R., and Brazil.
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A toaster uses almost half as much energy as a full-sized oven.
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Scientists in China have built a prototype high-speed maglev train that is theoretically capable of reaching speeds of up to 1,800 mph (2,900 km/h).
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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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The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
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Attics were invented in Attica.
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A fully loaded supertanker traveling at normal speed takes a least twenty minutes to stop.
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More than a billion transistors are manufactured every second.
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