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Aluminum, which makes up 8% of the Earth's crust, never occurs naturally. Each year, 21 million tonnes of aluminium are made mostly from bauxite dug up in Brazil and New Guinea.

In 1866, George W. McGill developed a stapling machine to fasten papers with brass fasteners. 

Scientists in England designed a robot that digests flies to generate the electric energy it needs. Currently the robot has to be fed, but the robot designers are planning to enable it to catch flies.

Diamonds were first discovered in the river beds of the Golconda region of India over 4000 years ago. 

Ariane Space's (France) family of Ariane 4 rockets had 74 consecutive commercial rocket launchings between March 1995 to February 2003 . It is the most successful commercial rocket launcher in the world.

Musk is extracted from the bottom of a civet, and is used as an ingredient to make perfumes. 

The first bicycle made in 1817 by Baron Van Drain didn't have pedals. People sat astride and went kicking. 

The bacterium, 'Deinococcus radio durans,' the toughest microbe on earth, can withstand atomic radiation of 6.5 million Roentgens or 10000 times the level fatal to the average human. It reported to be found in sulphurous sea bed vents, thriving at 306°C in the east Pacific.

The world's largest telephone switchboard is in the Pentagon, Virginia (USA). It has 34,500 lines And handle sapproximately one million calls a day. 

The STARS (Standard Terminal Automation System) throughout the continent's airport system replaced the old video screens of Air Traffic Control (ATC) in the first few years of the 20th century. The Stars' early display configuration (EDC) was installed and achieved first at El Paso, Texas (USA) in December 1999.


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