Sony researchers have developed a refrigerator that only opens when you smile.
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A fully loaded supertanker traveling at normal speed takes a least twenty minutes to stop.
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Car airbags kill 1 person for every 22 lives that they save.
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Kleenex tissues were originally used as filters in gas masks.
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All GPS units sold in the civilian market have to be programmed to deactivate themselves if they detect they are travelling faster than 1200 MPH or are above 60,000 feet in altitude to prevent them being used in intercontinental ballistic missiles.
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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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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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A Citreon 2CV with an oil leak once travelled 500 miles through Italy after its gearbox was filled with bananas!
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