Friday, September 14, 2007

General facts

The Pentium II chip can make more than half-a-billion calculations per second.

Nanotechnology has produced a guitar no bigger than a blood cell. The guitar, 10 micrometers long, has six strummable strings.

Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

The first company to use the modern-day aluminum can was Coors brewery, in 1959. The can the used however, was only 7 ounces!

The first product to have a bar code was Wrigleys gum!

There is enough graphite in the average pencil to draw a line 35 miles long, that’s 45,000 words.

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.

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