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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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    More than a billion transistors are manufactured every second.
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    Windmills always turn anti-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland!
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    The oil used by jewelers to lubricate clocks and watches costs about $3,000 a gallon.
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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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    In 1998, Sony accidently sold 700,000 camcorders that had the technology to see through people's clothes.
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    There's a phone app called RoboRoach that allows you to remotely control a cockroach through a chip that you to manually implant into the unwitting critter.
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    There’s an internet-enabled jacket which gives you a “hug” every time a Facebook friend likes your status.
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