Thomas Alva Edison patented almost 1,300 inventions in his lifetime!
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Originally, Nintendo was a playing card manufacturer.
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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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Windmills always turn anti-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland!
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About 39,000 gallons of water are used to produce the average car!
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Originally, BMW was an airplane engine manufacturer.
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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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More than a billion transistors are manufactured every second.
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