The Queen Mary - the grandest vessel of her day - had many of her vital components made by car manufacturer Skoda!
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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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A small airplane can fly backwards.
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The IRS processes more than 2 billion pieces of paper each year.
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The normal static electricty shock that zaps your finger when you touch a doorknob is usually between 10,000 and 30,000 volts!
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A fully loaded supertanker traveling at normal speed takes a least twenty minutes to stop.
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Attics were invented in Attica.
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It takes six months to build a Rolls Royce...and 13 hours to build a Toyota.
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