A fully loaded supertanker traveling at normal speed takes a least twenty minutes to stop.
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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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About 39,000 gallons of water are used to produce the average car!
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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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A Citreon 2CV with an oil leak once travelled 500 miles through Italy after its gearbox was filled with bananas!
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In the early 1960's, Porsche commercially manufactured farm tractors.
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The IRS processes more than 2 billion pieces of paper each year.
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Thomas Alva Edison patented almost 1,300 inventions in his lifetime!
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