More steel in the United States is used to make bottle caps than to manufacture automobile bodies.
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Technically speaking, crystal glass is actually a Liquid that flows very slowly.
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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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In 1998, Sony accidently sold 700,000 camcorders that had the technology to see through people's clothes.
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The Queen Mary - the grandest vessel of her day - had many of her vital components made by car manufacturer Skoda!
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Attics were invented in Attica.
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Castor oil is used as a lubricant in jet planes.
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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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