The United States produces enough plastic film annually to cover the entire state of Texas.
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A fully loaded supertanker traveling at normal speed takes a least twenty minutes to stop.
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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 first alarm clock could only ring at 4 a.m.
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In the early 1960's, Porsche commercially manufactured farm tractors.
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To have your picture taken by the very first camera you would have had to sit still for 8 hours!
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Whale oil was used in automobile transmissions as late as 1973.
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