Castor oil is used as a lubricant in jet planes.
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Windmills always turn anti-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland!
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The first hard drive available for the Apple II had a capacity of only 5 megabytes.
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About 39,000 gallons of water are used to produce the average car!
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Jumbo jets use 4,000 gallons of fuel to take off.
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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.
20
Originally, BMW was an airplane engine manufacturer.
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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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