Jumbo jets use 4,000 gallons of fuel to take off.
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Whale oil was used in automobile transmissions as late as 1973.
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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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A fully loaded supertanker traveling at normal speed takes a least twenty minutes to stop.
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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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There's a phone app called RoboRoach that allows you to remotely control a cockroach through a chip that you to manually implant into the unwitting critter.
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Windmills always turn anti-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland!
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