Castor oil is used as a lubricant in jet planes.
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The first hard drive available for the Apple II had a capacity of only 5 megabytes.
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It would take twenty new mid-size cars to generate the same amount of pollution that a mid-size 1960's car did.
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All GPS units sold in the civilian market have to be programmed to deactivate themselves if they detect they are travelling faster than 1200 MPH or are above 60,000 feet in altitude to prevent them being used in intercontinental ballistic missiles.
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Henry Ford produced the model T only in black because the black paint available at the time was the fastest to dry.
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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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The IRS processes more than 2 billion pieces of paper each year.
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Surgeons who grew up playing video games make 37 percent fewer mistakes.
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