The United States produces enough plastic film annually to cover the entire state of Texas.
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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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Thomas Alva Edison patented almost 1,300 inventions in his lifetime!
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First four countries to have television: England, the U.S., the U.S.S.R., and Brazil.
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It takes six months to build a Rolls Royce...and 13 hours to build a Toyota.
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There's a phone app called RoboRoach that allows you to remotely control a cockroach through a chip that you to manually implant into the unwitting critter.
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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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