Whale oil was used in automobile transmissions as late as 1973.
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A Citreon 2CV with an oil leak once travelled 500 miles through Italy after its gearbox was filled with bananas!
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Contrary to popular belief, putting sugar in a car's gas tank will NOT ruin its engine.
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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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A car operates at maximum economy, gas-wise, at speeds between 25 and 35 miles per hour.
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Originally, Nintendo was a playing card manufacturer.
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Students at MIT developed a wristband that can regulate your “thermal comfort”, which could possibly eliminate the need for central heating and cooling.
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It would take twenty new mid-size cars to generate the same amount of pollution that a mid-size 1960's car did.
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