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    A toaster uses almost half as much energy as a full-sized oven.
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    The United States produces enough plastic film annually to cover the entire state of Texas.
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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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    A Citreon 2CV with an oil leak once travelled 500 miles through Italy after its gearbox was filled with bananas!
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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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    More than a billion transistors are manufactured every second.
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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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