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    The ball on top of a flagpole is called a 'truck'.
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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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    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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    First four countries to have television: England, the U.S., the U.S.S.R., and Brazil.
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    More than a billion transistors are manufactured every second.
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    Bluetooth Name
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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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    The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
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    The first alarm clock could only ring at 4 a.m.
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