The IRS processes more than 2 billion pieces of paper each year.
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The United States produces enough plastic film annually to cover the entire state of Texas.
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The life boat was patented in 1845!
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Any modern jet is capable of breaking the sound barrier.
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Whale oil was used in automobile transmissions as late as 1973.
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Future biotechnology could be used to trick a prisoner's mind into thinking they have served a 1,000 year sentence in only eight hours, a group of scientists have claimed.
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A small airplane can fly backwards.
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A fully loaded supertanker traveling at normal speed takes a least twenty minutes to stop.
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