Thomas Alva Edison patented almost 1,300 inventions in his lifetime!
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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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There are only 14 blimps in the world.
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The United States produces enough plastic film annually to cover the entire state of Texas.
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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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Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis had an online multiplayer mode.
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In the early 1960's, Porsche commercially manufactured farm tractors.
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The first hard drive available for the Apple II had a capacity of only 5 megabytes.
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