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    Originally, BMW was an airplane engine manufacturer.
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    Castor oil is used as a lubricant in jet planes.
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    Bluetooth is named after the Danish King Harald "Bluetooth" who ate so many blueberries that his teeth stained blue. The wireless protocol is named after him because of his ability to unite warring Scandinavian factions, just as Bluetooth unites wireless devices. The Bluetooth logo is also a combination of the King's runic initials.
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    Whale oil was used in automobile transmissions as late as 1973.
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    Contrary to popular belief, putting sugar in a car's gas tank will NOT ruin its engine.
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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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    The first alarm clock could only ring at 4 a.m.
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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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