Castor oil is used as a lubricant in jet planes.
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Henry Ford produced the model T only in black because the black paint available at the time was the fastest to dry.
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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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The average car produces a pound of pollution every 25 miles!
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The first alarm clock could only ring at 4 a.m.
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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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Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page have expressed their desire to see the search engine become artificial intelligence itself. To achieve that goal, they created the highly-protected “X lab.”
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