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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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    Windmills always turn anti-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland!
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    The blueprint for a floating city has just been approved by the largest port construction and design company in China. It's entirely self-sustainable, and extends underwater.
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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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    Originally, Nintendo was a playing card manufacturer.
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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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    Game Boy Inventor
    Game Boy Inventor
    The inventor of the Game Boy, Gunpei Yokoi, was originally Nintendo’s janitor and maintenance man.
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    The Queen Mary - the grandest vessel of her day - had many of her vital components made by car manufacturer Skoda!
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