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    Jumbo jets use 4,000 gallons of fuel to take off.
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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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    The ball on top of a flagpole is called a 'truck'.
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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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    A small airplane can fly backwards.
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    Game Boy Uses More Computing Power Than First Lunar Mission
    The technology of a single Game Boy exceeds all the computing power that was used to put the first man on moon in 1969.
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    More than a billion transistors are manufactured every second.
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    Whale oil was used in automobile transmissions as late as 1973.
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