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Tuesday 9 August 2016

10 Facts about some Inventors

1. Walt Disney, Bill Gates, Henry Ford, Thomas Edison and Steve Jobs, all of them had no college degree.
2. Rudolf Diesel, who invented the Diesel engine, committed suicide in 1913 because he didn't think his invention would be successful.
3. Edison electrocuted an elephant in 1903 to prove Tesla's AC current was dangerous.
4. The inventor of Vaseline used to eat a spoonful of it every day.
5. Leo Da Vinci's studies of river erosion convinced him that Earth is much older than the Bible implies.
6. Nikola Tesla once "shook the poop out" of a constipated Mark Twain with an experiment.
7. No one knows who invented the fire hydrant because its patent was burned in a fire.
8. A 10-Year-Old Accidentally Created in 2012 a New Molecule in Science Class: Tetranitratoxycarbon.
9. The first Credit Card was created because of the embarrassment of a man who had to pay for dinner but forgot his wallet.
10. Charles Richter, who invented the Richter Scale, was a nudist.

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