Thomas Alva Edison patented almost 1,300 inventions in his lifetime!
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More steel in the United States is used to make bottle caps than to manufacture automobile bodies.
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It takes six months to build a Rolls Royce...and 13 hours to build a Toyota.
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In the early 1960's, Porsche commercially manufactured farm tractors.
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More than a billion transistors are manufactured every second.
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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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All GPS units sold in the civilian market have to be programmed to deactivate themselves if they detect they are travelling faster than 1200 MPH or are above 60,000 feet in altitude to prevent them being used in intercontinental ballistic missiles.
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