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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Scientists in the UK are creating a smartphone app that will enable users to test for STDs.
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The life boat was patented in 1845!
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More than a billion transistors are manufactured every second.
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Thomas Alva Edison patented almost 1,300 inventions in his lifetime!
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A toaster uses almost half as much energy as a full-sized oven.
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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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