More steel in the United States is used to make bottle caps than to manufacture automobile bodies.
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A fully loaded supertanker traveling at normal speed takes a least twenty minutes to stop.
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The oil used by jewelers to lubricate clocks and watches costs about $3,000 a gallon.
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It takes six months to build a Rolls Royce...and 13 hours to build a Toyota.
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There are only 14 blimps in the world.
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An airplane mechanic invented Slinky while he was playing with engine parts and realized the possible secondary use for the springs.
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