More steel in the United States is used to make bottle caps than to manufacture automobile bodies.
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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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All GPS units sold in the civilian market have to be programmed to deactivate themselves if they detect they are travelling faster than 1200 MPH or are above 60,000 feet in altitude to prevent them being used in intercontinental ballistic missiles.
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Whale oil was used in automobile transmissions as late as 1973.
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It would take twenty new mid-size cars to generate the same amount of pollution that a mid-size 1960's car did.
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Scientists in China have built a prototype high-speed maglev train that is theoretically capable of reaching speeds of up to 1,800 mph (2,900 km/h).
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Surgeons who grew up playing video games make 37 percent fewer mistakes.
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