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    A fully loaded supertanker traveling at normal speed takes a least twenty minutes to stop.
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    Henry Ford produced the model T only in black because the black paint available at the time was the fastest to dry.
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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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    The first hard drive available for the Apple II had a capacity of only 5 megabytes.
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    There are only 14 blimps in the world.
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    Windmills always turn anti-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland!
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    In the early 1960's, Porsche commercially manufactured farm tractors.
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    The IRS processes more than 2 billion pieces of paper each year.
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