It takes six months to build a Rolls Royce...and 13 hours to build a Toyota.
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An airplane mechanic invented Slinky while he was playing with engine parts and realized the possible secondary use for the springs.
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Mico headphones read your brainwaves and select music based on your state of mind.
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More than a billion transistors are manufactured every second.
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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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A fully loaded supertanker traveling at normal speed takes a least twenty minutes to stop.
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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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