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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 life boat was patented in 1845!
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    Kleenex tissues were originally used as filters in gas masks.
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    Any modern jet is capable of breaking the sound barrier.
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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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    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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    More than a billion transistors are manufactured every second.
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