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    A small airplane can fly backwards.
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    Car airbags kill 1 person for every 22 lives that they save.
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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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    Game Boy Inventor
    Game Boy Inventor
    The inventor of the Game Boy, Gunpei Yokoi, was originally Nintendo’s janitor and maintenance man.
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    A fully loaded supertanker traveling at normal speed takes a least twenty minutes to stop.
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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 Mumbai-based pizzeria that now delivers pizza by drone.
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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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