The oil used by jewelers to lubricate clocks and watches costs about $3,000 a gallon.
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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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Whale oil was used in automobile transmissions as late as 1973.
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The first hard drive available for the Apple II had a capacity of only 5 megabytes.
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There are only 14 blimps in the world.
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All GPS units sold in the civilian market have to be programmed to deactivate themselves if they detect they are travelling faster than 1200 MPH or are above 60,000 feet in altitude to prevent them being used in intercontinental ballistic missiles.
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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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Any modern jet is capable of breaking the sound barrier.
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