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    More than a billion transistors are manufactured every second.
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    To have your picture taken by the very first camera you would have had to sit still for 8 hours!
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    It takes six months to build a Rolls Royce...and 13 hours to build a Toyota.
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    Bluetooth is named after the Danish King Harald "Bluetooth" who ate so many blueberries that his teeth stained blue. The wireless protocol is named after him because of his ability to unite warring Scandinavian factions, just as Bluetooth unites wireless devices. The Bluetooth logo is also a combination of the King's runic initials.
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    The United States produces enough plastic film annually to cover the entire state of Texas.
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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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    The IRS processes more than 2 billion pieces of paper each year.
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