A toaster uses almost half as much energy as a full-sized oven.
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Future biotechnology could be used to trick a prisoner's mind into thinking they have served a 1,000 year sentence in only eight hours, a group of scientists have claimed.
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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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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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The life boat was patented in 1845!
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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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A small airplane can fly backwards.
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