If a car is travelling at 55 miles per hour it will travel 56 feet before the driver can shift his foot from the accelerator to the brake.
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The first hard drive available for the Apple II had a capacity of only 5 megabytes.
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The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
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A fully loaded supertanker traveling at normal speed takes a least twenty minutes to stop.
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The electric chair was invented by a dentist!
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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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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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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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