Castor oil is used as a lubricant in jet planes.
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Jumbo jets use 4,000 gallons of fuel to take off.
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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 oil used by jewelers to lubricate clocks and watches costs about $3,000 a gallon.
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The first hard drive available for the Apple II had a capacity of only 5 megabytes.
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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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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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Thomas Alva Edison patented almost 1,300 inventions in his lifetime!
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