A fully loaded supertanker traveling at normal speed takes a least twenty minutes to stop.
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Castor oil is used as a lubricant in jet planes.
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The normal static electricty shock that zaps your finger when you touch a doorknob is usually between 10,000 and 30,000 volts!
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Whale oil was used in automobile transmissions as late as 1973.
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In 1998, Sony accidently sold 700,000 camcorders that had the technology to see through people's clothes.
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There's a phone app called RoboRoach that allows you to remotely control a cockroach through a chip that you to manually implant into the unwitting critter.
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Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page have expressed their desire to see the search engine become artificial intelligence itself. To achieve that goal, they created the highly-protected “X lab.”
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