Castor oil is used as a lubricant in jet planes.
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Kleenex tissues were originally used as filters in gas masks.
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If a car is travelling at 55 miles per hour it will travel 56 feet before the driver can shift his foot from the accelerator to the brake.
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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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Originally, Nintendo was a playing card manufacturer.
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A toaster uses almost half as much energy as a full-sized oven.
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The IRS processes more than 2 billion pieces of paper each year.
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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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