More steel in the United States is used to make bottle caps than to manufacture automobile bodies.
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Jumbo jets use 4,000 gallons of fuel to take off.
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To have your picture taken by the very first camera you would have had to sit still for 8 hours!
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The oil used by jewelers to lubricate clocks and watches costs about $3,000 a gallon.
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Thomas Alva Edison patented almost 1,300 inventions in his lifetime!
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Whale oil was used in automobile transmissions as late as 1973.
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There are only 14 blimps in the world.
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In the early 1960's, Porsche commercially manufactured farm tractors.
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