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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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    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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    First four countries to have television: England, the U.S., the U.S.S.R., and Brazil.
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    There's a phone app called RoboRoach that allows you to remotely control a cockroach through a chip that you to manually implant into the unwitting critter.
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    Any modern jet is capable of breaking the sound barrier.
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    Castor oil is used as a lubricant in jet planes.
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    A toaster uses almost half as much energy as a full-sized oven.
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    Future biotechnology could be used to trick a prisoner's mind into thinking they have served a 1,000 year sentence in only eight hours, a group of scientists have claimed.
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