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    A toaster uses almost half as much energy as a full-sized oven.
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    Attics were invented in Attica.
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    If a car is travelling at 55 miles per hour it will travel 56 feet before the driver can shift his foot from the accelerator to the brake.
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    The first hard drive available for the Apple II had a capacity of only 5 megabytes.
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    Hitachi's ATM that Sterilizes and Irons Bills
    In the mid-90s, Hitachi produced an ATM that sterilized bills by heating them to 200 degrees Celsius, then ironed them before dispensing.
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    Windmills always turn anti-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland!
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    More steel in the United States is used to make bottle caps than to manufacture automobile bodies.
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    In 1998, Sony accidently sold 700,000 camcorders that had the technology to see through people's clothes.
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