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    Any modern jet is capable of breaking the sound barrier.
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    Thomas Alva Edison patented almost 1,300 inventions in his lifetime!
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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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    More than a billion transistors are manufactured every second.
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    Game Boy Inventor
    Game Boy Inventor
    The inventor of the Game Boy, Gunpei Yokoi, was originally Nintendo’s janitor and maintenance man.
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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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    Kissenger is a pig-shaped robotic device that lets you kiss someone over the internet.
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    It takes six months to build a Rolls Royce...and 13 hours to build a Toyota.
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