A fully loaded supertanker traveling at normal speed takes a least twenty minutes to stop.
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Surgeons who grew up playing video games make 37 percent fewer mistakes.
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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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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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More steel in the United States is used to make bottle caps than to manufacture automobile bodies.
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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 United States produces enough plastic film annually to cover the entire state of Texas.
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