More than a billion transistors are manufactured every second.
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Scientists in the UK are creating a smartphone app that will enable users to test for STDs.
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Kleenex tissues were originally used as filters in gas masks.
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Jumbo jets use 4,000 gallons of fuel to take off.
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About 39,000 gallons of water are used to produce the average car!
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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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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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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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