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    Whale oil was used in automobile transmissions as late as 1973.
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    A fully loaded supertanker traveling at normal speed takes a least twenty minutes to stop.
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    The IRS processes more than 2 billion pieces of paper each year.
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    An airplane mechanic invented Slinky while he was playing with engine parts and realized the possible secondary use for the springs.
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