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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A fully loaded supertanker traveling at normal speed takes a least twenty minutes to stop.
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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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Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page have expressed their desire to see the search engine become artificial intelligence itself. To achieve that goal, they created the highly-protected “X lab.”
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Whale oil was used in automobile transmissions as late as 1973.
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A toaster uses almost half as much energy as a full-sized oven.
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