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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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    A fully loaded supertanker traveling at normal speed takes a least twenty minutes to stop.
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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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    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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    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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    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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