The American Automobile Association was founded for the sole purpose of warning motorists of police speed traps!
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In the early 1960's, Porsche commercially manufactured farm tractors.
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A car operates at maximum economy, gas-wise, at speeds between 25 and 35 miles per hour.
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Whale oil was used in automobile transmissions as late as 1973.
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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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Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page have expressed their desire to see the search engine become artificial intelligence itself. To achieve that goal, they created the highly-protected “X lab.”
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The first hard drive available for the Apple II had a capacity of only 5 megabytes.
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