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    The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
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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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    An airplane mechanic invented Slinky while he was playing with engine parts and realized the possible secondary use for the springs.
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    The first hard drive available for the Apple II had a capacity of only 5 megabytes.
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    About 39,000 gallons of water are used to produce the average car!
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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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    More than a billion transistors are manufactured every second.
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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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