A fully loaded supertanker traveling at normal speed takes a least twenty minutes to stop.
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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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An airplane mechanic invented Slinky while he was playing with engine parts and realized the possible secondary use for the springs.
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The average car produces a pound of pollution every 25 miles!
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A toaster uses almost half as much energy as a full-sized oven.
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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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If a car is travelling at 55 miles per hour it will travel 56 feet before the driver can shift his foot from the accelerator to the brake.
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