More than a billion transistors are manufactured every second.
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The electric chair was invented by a dentist!
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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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More steel in the United States is used to make bottle caps than to manufacture automobile bodies.
55
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.
2
The oil used by jewelers to lubricate clocks and watches costs about $3,000 a gallon.
41
The first hard drive available for the Apple II had a capacity of only 5 megabytes.
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