A small airplane can fly backwards.
75
Surgeons who grew up playing video games make 37 percent fewer mistakes.
250
The United States produces enough plastic film annually to cover the entire state of Texas.
13
A fully loaded supertanker traveling at normal speed takes a least twenty minutes to stop.
27
More than a billion transistors are manufactured every second.
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First four countries to have television: England, the U.S., the U.S.S.R., and Brazil.
47
A Citreon 2CV with an oil leak once travelled 500 miles through Italy after its gearbox was filled with bananas!
16
An airplane mechanic invented Slinky while he was playing with engine parts and realized the possible secondary use for the springs.
12