The United States produces enough plastic film annually to cover the entire state of Texas.
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Whale oil was used in automobile transmissions as late as 1973.
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It takes six months to build a Rolls Royce...and 13 hours to build a Toyota.
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The first hard drive available for the Apple II had a capacity of only 5 megabytes.
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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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A toaster uses almost half as much energy as a full-sized oven.
33
The IRS processes more than 2 billion pieces of paper each year.
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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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