Thomas Alva Edison patented almost 1,300 inventions in his lifetime!
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A fully loaded supertanker traveling at normal speed takes a least twenty minutes to stop.
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Windmills always turn anti-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland!
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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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The first alarm clock could only ring at 4 a.m.
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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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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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Scientists in China have built a prototype high-speed maglev train that is theoretically capable of reaching speeds of up to 1,800 mph (2,900 km/h).
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