Kleenex tissues were originally used as filters in gas masks.
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A fully loaded supertanker traveling at normal speed takes a least twenty minutes to stop.
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Jumbo jets use 4,000 gallons of fuel to take off.
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About 39,000 gallons of water are used to produce the average car!
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The first alarm clock could only ring at 4 a.m.
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Future biotechnology could be used to trick a prisoner's mind into thinking they have served a 1,000 year sentence in only eight hours, a group of scientists have claimed.
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The first hard drive available for the Apple II had a capacity of only 5 megabytes.
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Windmills always turn anti-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland!
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