Castor oil is used as a lubricant in jet planes.
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Whale oil was used in automobile transmissions as late as 1973.
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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.
10
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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The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
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A toaster uses almost half as much energy as a full-sized oven.
33
In 1998, Sony accidently sold 700,000 camcorders that had the technology to see through people's clothes.
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First four countries to have television: England, the U.S., the U.S.S.R., and Brazil.
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