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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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    Car airbags kill 1 person for every 22 lives that they save.
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    The IRS processes more than 2 billion pieces of paper each year.
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    The normal static electricty shock that zaps your finger when you touch a doorknob is usually between 10,000 and 30,000 volts!
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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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    A toaster uses almost half as much energy as a full-sized oven.
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    Castor oil is used as a lubricant in jet planes.
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