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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 ball on top of a flagpole is called a 'truck'.
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    Thomas Alva Edison patented almost 1,300 inventions in his lifetime!
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    Bluetooth Name
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    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 Citreon 2CV with an oil leak once travelled 500 miles through Italy after its gearbox was filled with bananas!
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    The first alarm clock could only ring at 4 a.m.
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    The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
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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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