The United States produces enough plastic film annually to cover the entire state of Texas.
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In the early 1960's, Porsche commercially manufactured farm tractors.
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The blueprint for a floating city has just been approved by the largest port construction and design company in China. It's entirely self-sustainable, and extends underwater.
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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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The first hard drive available for the Apple II had a capacity of only 5 megabytes.
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Car airbags kill 1 person for every 22 lives that they save.
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The Google driverless car has only encountered two accidents. The first it was rear ended at a stop sign, and the second was when a human was behind the wheel.
7
Whale oil was used in automobile transmissions as late as 1973.
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