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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The average car produces a pound of pollution every 25 miles!
18
Kleenex tissues were originally used as filters in gas masks.
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A fully loaded supertanker traveling at normal speed takes a least twenty minutes to stop.
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Attics were invented in Attica.
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A Citreon 2CV with an oil leak once travelled 500 miles through Italy after its gearbox was filled with bananas!
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The first hard drive available for the Apple II had a capacity of only 5 megabytes.
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A small airplane can fly backwards.
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