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    Whale oil was used in automobile transmissions as late as 1973.
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    The oil used by jewelers to lubricate clocks and watches costs about $3,000 a gallon.
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    The first hard drive available for the Apple II had a capacity of only 5 megabytes.
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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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    Kleenex tissues were originally used as filters in gas masks.
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    Any modern jet is capable of breaking the sound barrier.
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