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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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 blueprint for a floating city has just been approved by the largest port construction and design company in China. It's entirely self-sustainable, and extends underwater.
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The first hard drive available for the Apple II had a capacity of only 5 megabytes.
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In the early 1960's, Porsche commercially manufactured farm tractors.
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Whale oil was used in automobile transmissions as late as 1973.
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There's a phone app called RoboRoach that allows you to remotely control a cockroach through a chip that you to manually implant into the unwitting critter.
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