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 cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
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Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis had an online multiplayer mode.
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A fully loaded supertanker traveling at normal speed takes a least twenty minutes to stop.
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In 1998, Sony accidently sold 700,000 camcorders that had the technology to see through people's clothes.
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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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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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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.
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