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    A fully loaded supertanker traveling at normal speed takes a least twenty minutes to stop.
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    The electric chair was invented by a dentist!
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    The first hard drive available for the Apple II had a capacity of only 5 megabytes.
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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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    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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    Whale oil was used in automobile transmissions as late as 1973.
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    In 1998, Sony accidently sold 700,000 camcorders that had the technology to see through people's clothes.
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    Surgeons who grew up playing video games make 37 percent fewer mistakes.
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