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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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    Game Boy Uses More Computing Power Than First Lunar Mission
    The technology of a single Game Boy exceeds all the computing power that was used to put the first man on moon in 1969.
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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 steel in the United States is used to make bottle caps than to manufacture automobile bodies.
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    The IRS processes more than 2 billion pieces of paper each year.
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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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    A small airplane can fly backwards.
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