More than a billion transistors are manufactured every second.
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Scientists in China have built a prototype high-speed maglev train that is theoretically capable of reaching speeds of up to 1,800 mph (2,900 km/h).
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If a car is travelling at 55 miles per hour it will travel 56 feet before the driver can shift his foot from the accelerator to the brake.
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In the early 1960's, Porsche commercially manufactured farm tractors.
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It takes six months to build a Rolls Royce...and 13 hours to build a Toyota.
93
Whale oil was used in automobile transmissions as late as 1973.
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The American Automobile Association was founded for the sole purpose of warning motorists of police speed traps!
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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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