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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A fully loaded supertanker traveling at normal speed takes a least twenty minutes to stop.
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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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Kleenex tissues were originally used as filters in gas masks.
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Windmills always turn anti-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland!
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The average car produces a pound of pollution every 25 miles!
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The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
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A car operates at maximum economy, gas-wise, at speeds between 25 and 35 miles per hour.
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