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    A toaster uses almost half as much energy as a full-sized oven.
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    Jumbo jets use 4,000 gallons of fuel to take off.
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    Whale oil was used in automobile transmissions as late as 1973.
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    The oil used by jewelers to lubricate clocks and watches costs about $3,000 a gallon.
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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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    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 steel in the United States is used to make bottle caps than to manufacture automobile bodies.
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    Scientists in China have built a prototype high-speed maglev train that is theoretically capable of reaching speeds of up to 1,800 mph (2,900 km/h).
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