More steel in the United States is used to make bottle caps than to manufacture automobile bodies.
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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 Google driverless car has only encountered two accidents. The first it was rear ended at a stop sign, and the second was when a human was behind the wheel.
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The first alarm clock could only ring at 4 a.m.
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It takes six months to build a Rolls Royce...and 13 hours to build a Toyota.
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A fully loaded supertanker traveling at normal speed takes a least twenty minutes to stop.
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The average car produces a pound of pollution every 25 miles!
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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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