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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A small airplane can fly backwards.
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The ball on top of a flagpole is called a 'truck'.
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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.
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Jumbo jets use 4,000 gallons of fuel to take off.
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In the early 1960's, Porsche commercially manufactured farm tractors.
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Whale oil was used in automobile transmissions as late as 1973.
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