The life boat was patented in 1845!
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A small airplane can fly backwards.
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Jumbo jets use 4,000 gallons of fuel to take off.
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There's a Mumbai-based pizzeria that now delivers pizza by drone.
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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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In 1998, Sony accidently sold 700,000 camcorders that had the technology to see through people's clothes.
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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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