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    Wind Turbine Trees
    Wind Turbine Trees
    After noticing the wind rustling and turning the leaves on trees, French entrepreneur Jérôme Michaud-Larivière designed wind turbine trees that could provide clean energy for urban settings.
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    Thomas Alva Edison patented almost 1,300 inventions in his lifetime!
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    Future biotechnology could be used to trick a prisoner's mind into thinking they have served a 1,000 year sentence in only eight hours, a group of scientists have claimed.
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    First four countries to have television: England, the U.S., the U.S.S.R., and Brazil.
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    The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
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    Whale oil was used in automobile transmissions as late as 1973.
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    Game Boy Inventor
    Game Boy Inventor
    The inventor of the Game Boy, Gunpei Yokoi, was originally Nintendo’s janitor and maintenance man.
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    Kleenex tissues were originally used as filters in gas masks.
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