The Queen Mary - the grandest vessel of her day - had many of her vital components made by car manufacturer Skoda!
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A fully loaded supertanker traveling at normal speed takes a least twenty minutes to stop.
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The ball on top of a flagpole is called a 'truck'.
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Technically speaking, crystal glass is actually a Liquid that flows very slowly.
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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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It takes six months to build a Rolls Royce...and 13 hours to build a Toyota.
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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 alarm clock could only ring at 4 a.m.
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