An airplane mechanic invented Slinky while he was playing with engine parts and realized the possible secondary use for the springs.
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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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More steel in the United States is used to make bottle caps than to manufacture automobile bodies.
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Car airbags kill 1 person for every 22 lives that they save.
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Technically speaking, crystal glass is actually a Liquid that flows very slowly.
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About 39,000 gallons of water are used to produce the average car!
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The ball on top of a flagpole is called a 'truck'.
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Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page have expressed their desire to see the search engine become artificial intelligence itself. To achieve that goal, they created the highly-protected “X lab.”
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