Jumbo jets use 4,000 gallons of fuel to take off.
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A small airplane can fly backwards.
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Scientists in the UK are creating a smartphone app that will enable users to test for STDs.
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A fully loaded supertanker traveling at normal speed takes a least twenty minutes to stop.
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Any modern jet is capable of breaking the sound barrier.
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First four countries to have television: England, the U.S., the U.S.S.R., and Brazil.
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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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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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