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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The life boat was patented in 1845!
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A fully loaded supertanker traveling at normal speed takes a least twenty minutes to stop.
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The IRS processes more than 2 billion pieces of paper each year.
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The average car produces a pound of pollution every 25 miles!
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The first hard drive available for the Apple II had a capacity of only 5 megabytes.
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The normal static electricty shock that zaps your finger when you touch a doorknob is usually between 10,000 and 30,000 volts!
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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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