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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A fully loaded supertanker traveling at normal speed takes a least twenty minutes to stop.
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More than a billion transistors are manufactured every second.
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The average car produces a pound of pollution every 25 miles!
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Any modern jet is capable of breaking the sound barrier.
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Technically speaking, crystal glass is actually a Liquid that flows very slowly.
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All GPS units sold in the civilian market have to be programmed to deactivate themselves if they detect they are travelling faster than 1200 MPH or are above 60,000 feet in altitude to prevent them being used in intercontinental ballistic missiles.
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