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    Kleenex tissues were originally used as filters in gas masks.
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    If a car is travelling at 55 miles per hour it will travel 56 feet before the driver can shift his foot from the accelerator to the brake.
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    Originally, Nintendo was a playing card manufacturer.
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    The electric chair was invented by a dentist!
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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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    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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    In 1998, Sony accidently sold 700,000 camcorders that had the technology to see through people's clothes.
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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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