Castor oil is used as a lubricant in jet planes.
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Car airbags kill 1 person for every 22 lives that they save.
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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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It takes six months to build a Rolls Royce...and 13 hours to build a Toyota.
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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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The Google driverless car has only encountered two accidents. The first it was rear ended at a stop sign, and the second was when a human was behind the wheel.
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Future biotechnology could be used to trick a prisoner's mind into thinking they have served a 1,000 year sentence in only eight hours, a group of scientists have claimed.
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