The ball on top of a flagpole is called a 'truck'.
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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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A toaster uses almost half as much energy as a full-sized oven.
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The Queen Mary - the grandest vessel of her day - had many of her vital components made by car manufacturer Skoda!
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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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Castor oil is used as a lubricant in jet planes.
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The IRS processes more than 2 billion pieces of paper each year.
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About 39,000 gallons of water are used to produce the average car!
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