Jumbo jets use 4,000 gallons of fuel to take off.
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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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There's a phone app called RoboRoach that allows you to remotely control a cockroach through a chip that you to manually implant into the unwitting critter.
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It would take twenty new mid-size cars to generate the same amount of pollution that a mid-size 1960's car did.
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The life boat was patented in 1845!
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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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