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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It takes six months to build a Rolls Royce...and 13 hours to build a Toyota.
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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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The IRS processes more than 2 billion pieces of paper each year.
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The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
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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 Citreon 2CV with an oil leak once travelled 500 miles through Italy after its gearbox was filled with bananas!
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