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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Whale oil was used in automobile transmissions as late as 1973.
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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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Sony researchers have developed a refrigerator that only opens when you smile.
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Any modern jet is capable of breaking the sound barrier.
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There's a phone app called RoboRoach that allows you to remotely control a cockroach through a chip that you to manually implant into the unwitting critter.
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The Queen Mary - the grandest vessel of her day - had many of her vital components made by car manufacturer Skoda!
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