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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Energy is being wasted if a toaster is left plugged in after use.
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A small airplane can fly backwards.
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All GPS units sold in the civilian market have to be programmed to deactivate themselves if they detect they are travelling faster than 1200 MPH or are above 60,000 feet in altitude to prevent them being used in intercontinental ballistic missiles.
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Windmills always turn anti-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland!
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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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In 1998, Sony accidently sold 700,000 camcorders that had the technology to see through people's clothes.
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Originally, BMW was an airplane engine manufacturer.
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