More steel in the United States is used to make bottle caps than to manufacture automobile bodies.
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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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About 39,000 gallons of water are used to produce the average car!
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Originally, Nintendo was a playing card manufacturer.
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Kleenex tissues were originally used as filters in gas masks.
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More than a billion transistors are manufactured every second.
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Surgeons who grew up playing video games make 37 percent fewer mistakes.
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Henry Ford produced the model T only in black because the black paint available at the time was the fastest to dry.
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