Whale oil was used in automobile transmissions as late as 1973.
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Jumbo jets use 4,000 gallons of fuel to take off.
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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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Thomas Alva Edison patented almost 1,300 inventions in his lifetime!
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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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About 39,000 gallons of water are used to produce the average car!
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The life boat was patented in 1845!
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