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.
25
A fully loaded supertanker traveling at normal speed takes a least twenty minutes to stop.
27
An airplane mechanic invented Slinky while he was playing with engine parts and realized the possible secondary use for the springs.
12
A toaster uses almost half as much energy as a full-sized oven.
33
In 1998, Sony accidently sold 700,000 camcorders that had the technology to see through people's clothes.
88
The first alarm clock could only ring at 4 a.m.
120
It would take twenty new mid-size cars to generate the same amount of pollution that a mid-size 1960's car did.
20