Jumbo jets use 4,000 gallons of fuel to take off.
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Whale oil was used in automobile transmissions as late as 1973.
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Kleenex tissues were originally used as filters in gas masks.
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The Queen Mary - the grandest vessel of her day - had many of her vital components made by car manufacturer Skoda!
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A fully loaded supertanker traveling at normal speed takes a least twenty minutes to stop.
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More steel in the United States is used to make bottle caps than to manufacture automobile bodies.
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In the early 1960's, Porsche commercially manufactured farm tractors.
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Henry Ford produced the model T only in black because the black paint available at the time was the fastest to dry.
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