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    A fully loaded supertanker traveling at normal speed takes a least twenty minutes to stop.
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    Surgeons who grew up playing video games make 37 percent fewer mistakes.
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    The ball on top of a flagpole is called a 'truck'.
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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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    More steel in the United States is used to make bottle caps than to manufacture automobile bodies.
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    The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
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    More than a billion transistors are manufactured every second.
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    All GPS units sold in the civilian market have to be programmed to deactivate themselves if they detect they are travelling faster than 1200 MPH or are above 60,000 feet in altitude to prevent them being used in intercontinental ballistic missiles.
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