Henry Ford produced the model T only in black because the black paint available at the time was the fastest to dry.
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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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All GPS units sold in the civilian market have to be programmed to deactivate themselves if they detect they are travelling faster than 1200 MPH or are above 60,000 feet in altitude to prevent them being used in intercontinental ballistic missiles.
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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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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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Sony researchers have developed a refrigerator that only opens when you smile.
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Jumbo jets use 4,000 gallons of fuel to take off.
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More than a billion transistors are manufactured every second.
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