More steel in the United States is used to make bottle caps than to manufacture automobile bodies.
55
Castor oil is used as a lubricant in jet planes.
-5
The average car produces a pound of pollution every 25 miles!
18
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.
2
Car airbags kill 1 person for every 22 lives that they save.
80
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.
0
A small airplane can fly backwards.
75