A fully loaded supertanker traveling at normal speed takes a least twenty minutes to stop.
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In the early 1960's, Porsche commercially manufactured farm tractors.
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There are only 14 blimps in the world.
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Thomas Alva Edison patented almost 1,300 inventions in his lifetime!
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More than a billion transistors are manufactured every second.
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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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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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To have your picture taken by the very first camera you would have had to sit still for 8 hours!
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