Any modern jet is capable of breaking the sound barrier.
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A small airplane can fly backwards.
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Contrary to popular belief, putting sugar in a car's gas tank will NOT ruin its engine.
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The oil used by jewelers to lubricate clocks and watches costs about $3,000 a gallon.
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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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The IRS processes more than 2 billion pieces of paper each year.
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The first hard drive available for the Apple II had a capacity of only 5 megabytes.
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More than a billion transistors are manufactured every second.
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