A Citreon 2CV with an oil leak once travelled 500 miles through Italy after its gearbox was filled with bananas!
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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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About 39,000 gallons of water are used to produce the average car!
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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 Queen Mary - the grandest vessel of her day - had many of her vital components made by car manufacturer Skoda!
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The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
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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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Whale oil was used in automobile transmissions as late as 1973.
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