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    The first hard drive available for the Apple II had a capacity of only 5 megabytes.
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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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    Originally, Nintendo was a playing card manufacturer.
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    Surgeons who grew up playing video games make 37 percent fewer mistakes.
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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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    More than a billion transistors are manufactured every second.
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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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    A fully loaded supertanker traveling at normal speed takes a least twenty minutes to stop.
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