A toaster uses almost half as much energy as a full-sized oven.
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A Citreon 2CV with an oil leak once travelled 500 miles through Italy after its gearbox was filled with bananas!
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Whale oil was used in automobile transmissions as late as 1973.
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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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Any modern jet is capable of breaking the sound barrier.
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Originally, BMW was an airplane engine manufacturer.
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A small airplane can fly backwards.
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The first hard drive available for the Apple II had a capacity of only 5 megabytes.
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