Windmills always turn anti-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland!
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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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Whale oil was used in automobile transmissions as late as 1973.
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Henry Ford produced the model T only in black because the black paint available at the time was the fastest to dry.
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A fully loaded supertanker traveling at normal speed takes a least twenty minutes to stop.
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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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An airplane mechanic invented Slinky while he was playing with engine parts and realized the possible secondary use for the springs.
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