Windmills always turn anti-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland!
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Henry Ford produced the model T only in black because the black paint available at the time was the fastest to dry.
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Energy is being wasted if a toaster is left plugged in after use.
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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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In the early 1960's, Porsche commercially manufactured farm tractors.
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Whale oil was used in automobile transmissions as late as 1973.
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A fully loaded supertanker traveling at normal speed takes a least twenty minutes to stop.
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