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The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
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A 'jiffy' is a unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
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Figlet, an ASCII font converter program, stands for Frank, Ian and Glenn's LETters.
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On average, half of all false teeth have some form of radioactivity.
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Bill Gates' first business was Traff-O-Data, a company that created machines which recorded the number of cars passing a given point on a road.
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Plutonium - first weighed on August 20th, 1942, by University of Chicago scientists Glenn Seaborg and his colleagues - was the first man-made element.
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Ethernet is a registered trademark of Xerox, Unix is a registered trademark of AT&T.
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On December 23, 1947, Bell Telephone Laboratories in Murray Hill, N.J., held a secret demonstration of the transistor which marked the foundation of modern electronics.
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Hydrogen gas is the least dense substance in the world, at 0.08988g/cc. Hydrogen solid is the most dense substance in the world, at 70.6g/cc.
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A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.
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The average lead pencil will draw a line 35 miles long or write approximately 50,000 English words.
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The male gypsy moth can 'smell' the virgin female gypsy moth from 1.8 miles away (pretty good trick).
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If you spell out consecutive numbers, you have to go up to one thousand until you would find the letter 'a'
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The name Wendy was made up for the book 'Peter Pan.'
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John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.
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A giraffe can go without water longer than a camel.
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Table tennis balls have been known to travel off the paddle at speeds up to 160 km/hr.
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