The first hard drive available for the Apple II had a capacity of only 5 megabytes.
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A fully loaded supertanker traveling at normal speed takes a least twenty minutes to stop.
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A toaster uses almost half as much energy as a full-sized oven.
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Thomas Alva Edison patented almost 1,300 inventions in his lifetime!
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More steel in the United States is used to make bottle caps than to manufacture automobile bodies.
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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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