A fully loaded supertanker traveling at normal speed takes a least twenty minutes to stop.
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There are only 14 blimps in the world.
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Thomas Alva Edison patented almost 1,300 inventions in his lifetime!
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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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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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Future biotechnology could be used to trick a prisoner's mind into thinking they have served a 1,000 year sentence in only eight hours, a group of scientists have claimed.
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Jumbo jets use 4,000 gallons of fuel to take off.
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To have your picture taken by the very first camera you would have had to sit still for 8 hours!
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