Rather than use CGI, Tim Burton had 40 squirrels trained to crack nuts for Charlie & The Chocolate Factory.
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Scientists at the Zhejiang University in China have developed an ultra-light material known as carbon aerogel.
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On October 28, 2013, wind power provided 100% of Denmark's power. At 2:00am, it was producing 122% of the country's energy needs.
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In Iceland, 100% of domestically produced electricity comes from renewable energy.
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‘Fracture putty’ is a material being developed that when packed in & around a bone fracture, provides full load bearing strength within days.
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In 2011, two men paraglided from the summit of Mt. Everest, arriving at a village in 42 minutes and avoiding the dangerous conventional 3 day descent.
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Scientist Niels Bohr was “given a house next door to the Carlsberg brewing company, and had a pipeline running from the brewery into the house so that he could have a never-ending supply of fresh beer on tap”.
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