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    Windmills always turn anti-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland!
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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 the early 1960's, Porsche commercially manufactured farm tractors.
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    Jumbo jets use 4,000 gallons of fuel to take off.
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    There's a phone app called RoboRoach that allows you to remotely control a cockroach through a chip that you to manually implant into the unwitting critter.
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    UFO sightings have reduced by over 80% since the introduction of smartphones and public access to HD video.
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    The first hard drive available for the Apple II had a capacity of only 5 megabytes.
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    The average car produces a pound of pollution every 25 miles!
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