Jumbo jets use 4,000 gallons of fuel to take off.
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The life boat was patented in 1845!
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The IRS processes more than 2 billion pieces of paper each year.
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The first hard drive available for the Apple II had a capacity of only 5 megabytes.
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Thomas Alva Edison patented almost 1,300 inventions in his lifetime!
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A fully loaded supertanker traveling at normal speed takes a least twenty minutes to stop.
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First four countries to have television: England, the U.S., the U.S.S.R., and Brazil.
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The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
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