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    The American Automobile Association was founded for the sole purpose of warning motorists of police speed traps!
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    Windmills always turn anti-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland!
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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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    In the early 1960's, Porsche commercially manufactured farm tractors.
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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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    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 average car produces a pound of pollution every 25 miles!
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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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