A fully loaded supertanker traveling at normal speed takes a least twenty minutes to stop.
27
To have your picture taken by the very first camera you would have had to sit still for 8 hours!
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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.
20
Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page have expressed their desire to see the search engine become artificial intelligence itself. To achieve that goal, they created the highly-protected “X lab.”
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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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Scientists in the UK are creating a smartphone app that will enable users to test for STDs.
0
Castor oil is used as a lubricant in jet planes.
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Whale oil was used in automobile transmissions as late as 1973.
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