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    About 39,000 gallons of water are used to produce the average car!
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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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    It would take twenty new mid-size cars to generate the same amount of pollution that a mid-size 1960's car did.
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    A fully loaded supertanker traveling at normal speed takes a least twenty minutes to stop.
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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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    Whale oil was used in automobile transmissions as late as 1973.
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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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    The oil used by jewelers to lubricate clocks and watches costs about $3,000 a gallon.
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