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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UFO sightings have reduced by over 80% since the introduction of smartphones and public access to HD video.
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The Google driverless car has only encountered two accidents. The first it was rear ended at a stop sign, and the second was when a human was behind the wheel.
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Any modern jet is capable of breaking the sound barrier.
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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 life boat was patented in 1845!
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Whale oil was used in automobile transmissions as late as 1973.
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