Henry Ford produced the model T only in black because the black paint available at the time was the fastest to dry.
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Jumbo jets use 4,000 gallons of fuel to take off.
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The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
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More steel in the United States is used to make bottle caps than to manufacture automobile bodies.
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About 39,000 gallons of water are used to produce the average car!
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Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page have expressed their desire to see the search engine become artificial intelligence itself. To achieve that goal, they created the highly-protected “X lab.”
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Whale oil was used in automobile transmissions as late as 1973.
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