The oil used by jewelers to lubricate clocks and watches costs about $3,000 a gallon.
41
To have your picture taken by the very first camera you would have had to sit still for 8 hours!
308
Any modern jet is capable of breaking the sound barrier.
34
Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page have expressed their desire to see the search engine become artificial intelligence itself. To achieve that goal, they created the highly-protected “X lab.”
-7
The ball on top of a flagpole is called a 'truck'.
24
A fully loaded supertanker traveling at normal speed takes a least twenty minutes to stop.
27
A Citreon 2CV with an oil leak once travelled 500 miles through Italy after its gearbox was filled with bananas!
16