Jumbo jets use 4,000 gallons of fuel to take off.
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Sony researchers have developed a refrigerator that only opens when you smile.
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An airplane mechanic invented Slinky while he was playing with engine parts and realized the possible secondary use for the springs.
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Whale oil was used in automobile transmissions as late as 1973.
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Castor oil is used as a lubricant in jet planes.
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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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More steel in the United States is used to make bottle caps than to manufacture automobile bodies.
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