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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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    Scientists in the UK are creating a smartphone app that will enable users to test for STDs.
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    Windmills always turn anti-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland!
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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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    A small airplane can fly backwards.
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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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    In 1998, Sony accidently sold 700,000 camcorders that had the technology to see through people's clothes.
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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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