The Queen Mary - the grandest vessel of her day - had many of her vital components made by car manufacturer Skoda!
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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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Whale oil was used in automobile transmissions as late as 1973.
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There's an "anti-smartphone" called John's Phone which can only make and receive calls.
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Castor oil is used as a lubricant in jet planes.
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It would take twenty new mid-size cars to generate the same amount of pollution that a mid-size 1960's car did.
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In the early 1960's, Porsche commercially manufactured farm tractors.
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The life boat was patented in 1845!
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