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... that only one of the 266 1076 Class steam locomotives built for the Great Western Railway was named, and the rest had only numbers?
... that one of the humanoid robots created by Japanese roboticist Tomotaka Takahashi was listed in Time’s Coolest Inventions in 2004?
... that the Barbarigo (pictured) was a World War II Italian submarine that mysteriously disappeared in 1943?
... that Mercedes Reaves, a Puerto Rican research engineer and scientist, is responsible for the design of a viable, full-scale solar sail at the NASA Langley Research Center?
... that Stephen Fry asked on Twitter for suggestions to name a BBC television series on the impact of the Internet, now called The Virtual Revolution?