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    The oil used by jewelers to lubricate clocks and watches costs about $3,000 a gallon.
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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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    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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    More than a billion transistors are manufactured every second.
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    Kissenger is a pig-shaped robotic device that lets you kiss someone over the internet.
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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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    A fully loaded supertanker traveling at normal speed takes a least twenty minutes to stop.
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