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    Originally, BMW was an airplane engine manufacturer.
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    The first hard drive available for the Apple II had a capacity of only 5 megabytes.
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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 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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    First four countries to have television: England, the U.S., the U.S.S.R., and Brazil.
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    Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis had an online multiplayer mode.
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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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    A toaster uses almost half as much energy as a full-sized oven.
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