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To have your picture taken by the very first camera you would have had to sit still for 8 hours!
Today's top fuel dragsters take off with more force than the space shuttle.
Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
Wearing yellow makes you look bigger on camera; green, smaller.
Whale oil was used in automobile transmissions as late as 1973.
When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour.
When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour. To photograph the event, a camera must shoot at a millionth of a second!
Windmills always turn anti-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland!
Windmills always turn counter-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland!
Wine will spoil if exposed to light; hence tinted bottles.
With two forks and a charge, a pickle will emit light.
Yahoo! was originally called 'Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web'.
You can start a fire with ice.
You can tape a small mirror onto a cone speaker, play music and shine a laser on to the mirror and the reflection will look like a laser light show on your wall.
Computers as we know them today only really started being made in 1980.
Computers use a microprocessor that makes extremely fast calculations.
Over 6,000 new computer viruses are released every month. You should be careful what you download!
The first computer mouse was made out of wood in 1964.
Only 8% of the world’s currency is physical money, the rest only exists on computers.
Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft was a college drop out.

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