The first hard drive available for the Apple II had a capacity of only 5 megabytes.
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The oil used by jewelers to lubricate clocks and watches costs about $3,000 a gallon.
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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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Kleenex tissues were originally used as filters in gas masks.
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In 1998, Sony accidently sold 700,000 camcorders that had the technology to see through people's clothes.
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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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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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Any modern jet is capable of breaking the sound barrier.
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