Aluminum Cans
When people think of great feats of human engineering they think of dams, the space shuttle, even this Web site. However, the product that has received the most amount of engineering and research is the aluminum can.
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Bricks and Windows
Things can look pretty different and yet have much in common. Take for example a brick wall and a plate glass window.
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Canola
Canola oil would be more accurately described as Rape Seed Oil.
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Clocks
Most analog clocks featured in ads are depicted with 10:10 as the time on the dial.
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Coat Hangers
Trying to break into your car with a coat hanger?
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Condoms
The thickness of the average condom is .07 mm.
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Digital Camera Photos & Flash Cards
I have a 2 GB flash card in my new camera I am taking on a two week vacation. I was wondering how many photos I can hold on each card and whether or not a 2 GB card is enough?
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FireFox Code Name
Some of the best trivia we find come from the people who work on projects, which is why we present the real code name for Mozilla Firefox.
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First Cash Machine
The first cash machine was invented for a North London branch of Barclays in 1967.
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Golden Gate Bridge Suicides
Since opening on May 27, 1937, The Golden Gate Bridge has been a very popular destination for people who want to end their lives.
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LED Flashlight Battery Life
The size of your battery in a flashlight can dramatically increase the amount of time the flashlight will produce power.
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Malaria Cures Syphilis
It could be one of the strangest cures we have ever heard, but before the 20th Century, there were no effective treatments for Syphilis. Once Syphilis starts to affect the brain, without treatment it's 100% fatal and for years there was no treatment available. Until someone discovered a rather interesting side effects of Malaria. It actually cured Syphilis.
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Mishandled Baggage
How safe is your luggage? Collectively, if you take all the airlines from around the world and compare how many bags they losee every year, you will find you have a 1% chance to lose your luggage.
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Most Passengers on an Airplane
On May 24, 1991, El Al Airlines flew a a specially chartered Boeing 747 from Addis Ababa to Israel. This was part of "Operation Solomon" -- a project to bring Ethiopian Jews to Israel.
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Most Remote Cash Machines
Wells Fargo Bank and MasterCard have worked together and installed an automatic teller machine on the continent of Antarctica.
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One Plane, 6 Million Pieces
One Boeing 747-400 contains six million individual parts.
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Pin Number
The first PIN number was created in 1967.
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US Junk Mail
According to the US Postal Service, in 2005, US Postal workers delivered over 100 billion pieces of first-class mail. They also delivered over 101 billion pieces of junk mail. It was the first bulk mail, or year junk mail exceeded regular mail.
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US Mail Delivery
In 1780, Benjamin Franklin set up the postal service so that a standard business letter would be delivered between Philadelphia and New York in one day.
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US Paper Currency
You can add the US dollar to the list of things made from animal products.
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