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    More than a billion transistors are manufactured every second.
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    The ball on top of a flagpole is called a 'truck'.
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    Whale oil was used in automobile transmissions as late as 1973.
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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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    Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis had an online multiplayer mode.
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    Hitachi's ATM that Sterilizes and Irons Bills
    In the mid-90s, Hitachi produced an ATM that sterilized bills by heating them to 200 degrees Celsius, then ironed them before dispensing.
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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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    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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