Whale oil was used in automobile transmissions as late as 1973.
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Thomas Alva Edison patented almost 1,300 inventions in his lifetime!
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Originally, Nintendo was a playing card manufacturer.
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The average car produces a pound of pollution every 25 miles!
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Any modern jet is capable of breaking the sound barrier.
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A fully loaded supertanker traveling at normal speed takes a least twenty minutes to stop.
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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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