A toaster uses almost half as much energy as a full-sized oven.
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Henry Ford produced the model T only in black because the black paint available at the time was the fastest to dry.
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Any modern jet is capable of breaking the sound barrier.
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If a car is travelling at 55 miles per hour it will travel 56 feet before the driver can shift his foot from the accelerator to the brake.
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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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Future biotechnology could be used to trick a prisoner's mind into thinking they have served a 1,000 year sentence in only eight hours, a group of scientists have claimed.
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The ball on top of a flagpole is called a 'truck'.
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The first hard drive available for the Apple II had a capacity of only 5 megabytes.
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