A fully loaded supertanker traveling at normal speed takes a least twenty minutes to stop.
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The IRS processes more than 2 billion pieces of paper each year.
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Castor oil is used as a lubricant in jet planes.
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Jumbo jets use 4,000 gallons of fuel to take off.
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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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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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More steel in the United States is used to make bottle caps than to manufacture automobile bodies.
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Attics were invented in Attica.
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