Kleenex tissues were originally used as filters in gas masks.
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Castor oil is used as a lubricant in jet planes.
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The IRS processes more than 2 billion pieces of paper each year.
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The Queen Mary - the grandest vessel of her day - had many of her vital components made by car manufacturer Skoda!
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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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Future biotechnology could be used to trick a prisoner's mind into thinking they have served a 1,000 year sentence in only eight hours, a group of scientists have claimed.
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Thomas Alva Edison patented almost 1,300 inventions in his lifetime!
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