The oil used by jewelers to lubricate clocks and watches costs about $3,000 a gallon.
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If a car is travelling at 55 miles per hour it will travel 56 feet before the driver can shift his foot from the accelerator to the brake.
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Whale oil was used in automobile transmissions as late as 1973.
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The electric chair was invented by a dentist!
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In 1998, Sony accidently sold 700,000 camcorders that had the technology to see through people's clothes.
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Any modern jet is capable of breaking the sound barrier.
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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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More steel in the United States is used to make bottle caps than to manufacture automobile bodies.
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