The Queen Mary - the grandest vessel of her day - had many of her vital components made by car manufacturer Skoda!
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The oil used by jewelers to lubricate clocks and watches costs about $3,000 a gallon.
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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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A Citreon 2CV with an oil leak once travelled 500 miles through Italy after its gearbox was filled with bananas!
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The first alarm clock could only ring at 4 a.m.
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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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