The Pentium II chip can make more than half-a-billion calculations per second.
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Nanotechnology has produced a guitar no bigger than a blood cell. The guitar, 10 micrometers long, has six strummable strings.
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Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
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The first company to use the modern-day aluminum can was Coors brewery, in 1959. The can the used however, was only 7 ounces!
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The first product to have a bar code was Wrigleys gum!
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There is enough graphite in the average pencil to draw a line 35 miles long, that’s 45,000 words.
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It would take half the people in the United States between the ages of 18 and 45 to run the nation’s telephone system if it were not computerized.