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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More steel in the United States is used to make bottle caps than to manufacture automobile bodies.
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Jumbo jets use 4,000 gallons of fuel to take off.
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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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The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
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The normal static electricty shock that zaps your finger when you touch a doorknob is usually between 10,000 and 30,000 volts!
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More than a billion transistors are manufactured every second.
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