Windmills always turn anti-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland!
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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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An airplane mechanic invented Slinky while he was playing with engine parts and realized the possible secondary use for the springs.
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A fully loaded supertanker traveling at normal speed takes a least twenty minutes to stop.
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Thomas Alva Edison patented almost 1,300 inventions in his lifetime!
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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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Energy is being wasted if a toaster is left plugged in after use.
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