Whale oil was used in automobile transmissions as late as 1973.
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In the early 1960's, Porsche commercially manufactured farm tractors.
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There's an "anti-smartphone" called John's Phone which can only make and receive calls.
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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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The American Automobile Association was founded for the sole purpose of warning motorists of police speed traps!
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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.
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The first hard drive available for the Apple II had a capacity of only 5 megabytes.
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It takes six months to build a Rolls Royce...and 13 hours to build a Toyota.
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