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    In the early 1960's, Porsche commercially manufactured farm tractors.
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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, BMW was an airplane engine manufacturer.
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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 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 fully loaded supertanker traveling at normal speed takes a least twenty minutes to stop.
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    There's an "anti-smartphone" called John's Phone which can only make and receive calls.
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    Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page have expressed their desire to see the search engine become artificial intelligence itself. To achieve that goal, they created the highly-protected “X lab.”
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