More than a billion transistors are manufactured every second.
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The Queen Mary - the grandest vessel of her day - had many of her vital components made by car manufacturer Skoda!
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In the early 1960's, Porsche commercially manufactured farm tractors.
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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 oil used by jewelers to lubricate clocks and watches costs about $3,000 a gallon.
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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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Castor oil is used as a lubricant in jet planes.
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In 1998, Sony accidently sold 700,000 camcorders that had the technology to see through people's clothes.
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