A Citreon 2CV with an oil leak once travelled 500 miles through Italy after its gearbox was filled with bananas!
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It would take twenty new mid-size cars to generate the same amount of pollution that a mid-size 1960's car did.
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The life boat was patented in 1845!
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Contrary to popular belief, putting sugar in a car's gas tank will NOT ruin its engine.
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A fully loaded supertanker traveling at normal speed takes a least twenty minutes to stop.
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Kleenex tissues were originally used as filters in gas masks.
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The first hard drive available for the Apple II had a capacity of only 5 megabytes.
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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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