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    More than a billion transistors are manufactured every second.
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    The first hard drive available for the Apple II had a capacity of only 5 megabytes.
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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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    Henry Ford produced the model T only in black because the black paint available at the time was the fastest to dry.
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    The blueprint for a floating city has just been approved by the largest port construction and design company in China. It's entirely self-sustainable, and extends underwater.
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    Future biotechnology could be used to trick a prisoner's mind into thinking they have served a 1,000 year sentence in only eight hours, a group of scientists have claimed.
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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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    Whale oil was used in automobile transmissions as late as 1973.
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