Kleenex tissues were originally used as filters in gas masks.
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Windmills always turn anti-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland!
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Any modern jet is capable of breaking the sound barrier.
34
More steel in the United States is used to make bottle caps than to manufacture automobile bodies.
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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.
2
There’s an internet-enabled jacket which gives you a “hug” every time a Facebook friend likes your status.
12
It would take twenty new mid-size cars to generate the same amount of pollution that a mid-size 1960's car did.
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