Castor oil is used as a lubricant in jet planes.
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Whale oil was used in automobile transmissions as late as 1973.
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The life boat was patented in 1845!
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About 39,000 gallons of water are used to produce the average car!
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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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Kleenex tissues were originally used as filters in gas masks.
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The first hard drive available for the Apple II had a capacity of only 5 megabytes.
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