Whale oil was used in automobile transmissions as late as 1973.
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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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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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In 1998, Sony accidently sold 700,000 camcorders that had the technology to see through people's clothes.
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A small airplane can fly backwards.
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Attics were invented in Attica.
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