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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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    The first hard drive available for the Apple II had a capacity of only 5 megabytes.
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    To have your picture taken by the very first camera you would have had to sit still for 8 hours!
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    Kleenex tissues were originally used as filters in gas masks.
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    If a car is travelling at 55 miles per hour it will travel 56 feet before the driver can shift his foot from the accelerator to the brake.
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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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    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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    The IRS processes more than 2 billion pieces of paper each year.
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