Castor oil is used as a lubricant in jet planes.
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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.
10
There are only 14 blimps in the world.
69
In the early 1960's, Porsche commercially manufactured farm tractors.
24
Scientists in China have built a prototype high-speed maglev train that is theoretically capable of reaching speeds of up to 1,800 mph (2,900 km/h).
1
Whale oil was used in automobile transmissions as late as 1973.
56
It would take twenty new mid-size cars to generate the same amount of pollution that a mid-size 1960's car did.
20