The American Automobile Association was founded for the sole purpose of warning motorists of police speed traps!
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The oil used by jewelers to lubricate clocks and watches costs about $3,000 a gallon.
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Castor oil is used as a lubricant in jet planes.
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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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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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Sony researchers have developed a refrigerator that only opens when you smile.
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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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The Queen Mary - the grandest vessel of her day - had many of her vital components made by car manufacturer Skoda!
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