A small airplane can fly backwards.
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Attics were invented in Attica.
43
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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A fully loaded supertanker traveling at normal speed takes a least twenty minutes to stop.
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There's a phone app called RoboRoach that allows you to remotely control a cockroach through a chip that you to manually implant into the unwitting critter.
10
The life boat was patented in 1845!
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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.
20