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    Castor oil is used as a lubricant in jet planes.
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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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    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 IRS processes more than 2 billion pieces of paper each year.
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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 life boat was patented in 1845!
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    The Google driverless car has only encountered two accidents. The first it was rear ended at a stop sign, and the second was when a human was behind the wheel.
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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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