Windmills always turn anti-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland!
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The first alarm clock could only ring at 4 a.m.
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Whale oil was used in automobile transmissions as late as 1973.
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A toaster uses almost half as much energy as a full-sized oven.
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There's a phone app called RoboRoach that allows you to remotely control a cockroach through a chip that you to manually implant into the unwitting critter.
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In the early 1960's, Porsche commercially manufactured farm tractors.
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The IRS processes more than 2 billion pieces of paper each year.
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Sony researchers have developed a refrigerator that only opens when you smile.
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