The Queen Mary - the grandest vessel of her day - had many of her vital components made by car manufacturer Skoda!
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The oil used by jewelers to lubricate clocks and watches costs about $3,000 a gallon.
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Attics were invented in Attica.
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The normal static electricty shock that zaps your finger when you touch a doorknob is usually between 10,000 and 30,000 volts!
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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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About 39,000 gallons of water are used to produce the average car!
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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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More steel in the United States is used to make bottle caps than to manufacture automobile bodies.
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