Any modern jet is capable of breaking the sound barrier.
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Castor oil is used as a lubricant in jet planes.
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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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Surgeons who grew up playing video games make 37 percent fewer mistakes.
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Sony researchers have developed a refrigerator that only opens when you smile.
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If a car is travelling at 55 miles per hour it will travel 56 feet before the driver can shift his foot from the accelerator to the brake.
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In the early 1960's, Porsche commercially manufactured farm tractors.
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Thomas Alva Edison patented almost 1,300 inventions in his lifetime!
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