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    The UK Has a Bus Service That Is Powered by Poop
    In the UK, there's a bus service that's powered by poop.
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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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    More steel in the United States is used to make bottle caps than to manufacture automobile bodies.
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    An airplane mechanic invented Slinky while he was playing with engine parts and realized the possible secondary use for the springs.
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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 are only 14 blimps in the world.
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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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    A small airplane can fly backwards.
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