The ball on top of a flagpole is called a 'truck'.
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Castor oil is used as a lubricant in jet planes.
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The first alarm clock could only ring at 4 a.m.
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About 39,000 gallons of water are used to produce the average car!
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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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Thomas Alva Edison patented almost 1,300 inventions in his lifetime!
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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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