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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The electric chair was invented by a dentist!
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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.
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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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Kleenex tissues were originally used as filters in gas masks.
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In the early 1960's, Porsche commercially manufactured farm tractors.
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Windmills always turn anti-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland!
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To have your picture taken by the very first camera you would have had to sit still for 8 hours!
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