A Citreon 2CV with an oil leak once travelled 500 miles through Italy after its gearbox was filled with bananas!
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A fully loaded supertanker traveling at normal speed takes a least twenty minutes to stop.
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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 ball on top of a flagpole is called a 'truck'.
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Scientists in China have built a prototype high-speed maglev train that is theoretically capable of reaching speeds of up to 1,800 mph (2,900 km/h).
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Thomas Alva Edison patented almost 1,300 inventions in his lifetime!
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A small airplane can fly backwards.
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It would take twenty new mid-size cars to generate the same amount of pollution that a mid-size 1960's car did.
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