Thomas Alva Edison patented almost 1,300 inventions in his lifetime!
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Car airbags kill 1 person for every 22 lives that they save.
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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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More steel in the United States is used to make bottle caps than to manufacture automobile bodies.
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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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The IRS processes more than 2 billion pieces of paper each year.
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Energy is being wasted if a toaster is left plugged in after use.
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A fully loaded supertanker traveling at normal speed takes a least twenty minutes to stop.
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