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.
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The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
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The first hard drive available for the Apple II had a capacity of only 5 megabytes.
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It takes six months to build a Rolls Royce...and 13 hours to build a Toyota.
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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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First four countries to have television: England, the U.S., the U.S.S.R., and Brazil.
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Thomas Alva Edison patented almost 1,300 inventions in his lifetime!
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