To have your picture taken by the very first camera you would have had to sit still for 8 hours!
308
Windmills always turn anti-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland!
184
A fully loaded supertanker traveling at normal speed takes a least twenty minutes to stop.
27
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.
2
More than a billion transistors are manufactured every second.
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The average car produces a pound of pollution every 25 miles!
18
The American Automobile Association was founded for the sole purpose of warning motorists of police speed traps!
36
The first alarm clock could only ring at 4 a.m.
120