Whale oil was used in automobile transmissions as late as 1973.
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Car airbags kill 1 person for every 22 lives that they save.
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The IRS processes more than 2 billion pieces of paper each year.
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More steel in the United States is used to make bottle caps than to manufacture automobile bodies.
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A fully loaded supertanker traveling at normal speed takes a least twenty minutes to stop.
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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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Energy is being wasted if a toaster is left plugged in after use.
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