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.
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The Google driverless car has only encountered two accidents. The first it was rear ended at a stop sign, and the second was when a human was behind the wheel.
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The United States produces enough plastic film annually to cover the entire state of Texas.
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A fully loaded supertanker traveling at normal speed takes a least twenty minutes to stop.
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Thomas Alva Edison patented almost 1,300 inventions in his lifetime!
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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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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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In the early 1960's, Porsche commercially manufactured farm tractors.
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