There’s an internet-enabled jacket which gives you a “hug” every time a Facebook friend likes your status.
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A Citreon 2CV with an oil leak once travelled 500 miles through Italy after its gearbox was filled with bananas!
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A small airplane can fly backwards.
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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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Castor oil is used as a lubricant in jet planes.
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More than a billion transistors are manufactured every second.
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Car airbags kill 1 person for every 22 lives that they save.
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Whale oil was used in automobile transmissions as late as 1973.
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