A fully loaded supertanker traveling at normal speed takes a least twenty minutes to stop.
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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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More steel in the United States is used to make bottle caps than to manufacture automobile bodies.
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Castor oil is used as a lubricant in jet planes.
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The American Automobile Association was founded for the sole purpose of warning motorists of police speed traps!
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Future biotechnology could be used to trick a prisoner's mind into thinking they have served a 1,000 year sentence in only eight hours, a group of scientists have claimed.
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The average car produces a pound of pollution every 25 miles!
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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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