To have your picture taken by the very first camera you would have had to sit still for 8 hours!
308
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.
2
There are only 14 blimps in the world.
69
In the early 1960's, Porsche commercially manufactured farm tractors.
24
The first hard drive available for the Apple II had a capacity of only 5 megabytes.
46
Castor oil is used as a lubricant in jet planes.
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Jumbo jets use 4,000 gallons of fuel to take off.
19
Any modern jet is capable of breaking the sound barrier.
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