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    About 39,000 gallons of water are used to produce the average car!
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    Bluetooth Name
    Bluetooth Name
    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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    Jumbo jets use 4,000 gallons of fuel to take off.
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    A small airplane can fly backwards.
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    Whale oil was used in automobile transmissions as late as 1973.
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    Technically speaking, crystal glass is actually a Liquid that flows very slowly.
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    A fully loaded supertanker traveling at normal speed takes a least twenty minutes to stop.
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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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