A fully loaded supertanker traveling at normal speed takes a least twenty minutes to stop.
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Thomas Alva Edison patented almost 1,300 inventions in his lifetime!
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Whale oil was used in automobile transmissions as late as 1973.
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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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The Queen Mary - the grandest vessel of her day - had many of her vital components made by car manufacturer Skoda!
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Students at MIT developed a wristband that can regulate your “thermal comfort”, which could possibly eliminate the need for central heating and cooling.
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Originally, BMW was an airplane engine manufacturer.
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