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    More than a billion transistors are manufactured every second.
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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 first hard drive available for the Apple II had a capacity of only 5 megabytes.
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    Whale oil was used in automobile transmissions as late as 1973.
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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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    Game Boy Uses More Computing Power Than First Lunar Mission
    The technology of a single Game Boy exceeds all the computing power that was used to put the first man on moon in 1969.
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    Castor oil is used as a lubricant in jet planes.
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    About 39,000 gallons of water are used to produce the average car!
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