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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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    More than a billion transistors are manufactured every second.
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    A toaster uses almost half as much energy as a full-sized oven.
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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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    The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
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    A Citreon 2CV with an oil leak once travelled 500 miles through Italy after its gearbox was filled with bananas!
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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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    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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