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William Kamkwamba, who taught himself to build windmills from library books. He built his first windmill, at age 15, out of junk from the scrap yard and brought power to his Malawian village. Later on he built another windmill to power water pumps to irrigate fields.

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The longest ship ever built was the Seawise Giant, it was 1,500 foot long, it was longer than the Empire State building is high. It had a 36 tonne anchor and it weighed 564,000 tonnes. It doesn't exist anymore and was sold for scrap to a Indian breaking yard.

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1. In 2005 the Kola Superdeep Borehole project was permanently abandoned. Money was not available to continue and the drilling rig, research equipment, and other items were sold to a scrap yard.

2. USS Saratoga (CV-60) was bought in 1956 for $209 mil by the US Navy, who then last year paid a Texas ship yard ONE CENT to take it and scrap it.

3. While being transported to a scrap yard the cruise ship Lyubov Orlova drifted out to sea and has never been found again.

4. The statue of Emperor Trajan at the Tower of London was likely to have been recovered from a scrap yard and had its head replaced

5. A Seattle man bought a statue of Lenin from a scrap yard Czechoslovakia in 1993. He mortgaged his house to bring it to Seattle, but before it could be erected, he died in an accident. It now stands in the Fremont District of Seattle, and is dressed in drag during Gay Pride Week. It's for sale.

6. A NYC neighborhood has a population of one person. Willets Point, Queens has no paved roads, sidewalks, or sewers. It is mostly auto repair shops and scrap yards, and has been called "post-apocalyptic" in appearance.

7. The infamous Chittagong ship breaking yard in Bangladesh started when a ship got stranded in the 60's, and since they couldnt get it back out to sea they scrapped it. Thus the local ship breaking industry was born.

8. Just like your food scrap waste becomes fertilizer in the form of compost, your fallen leaves will work hard to feed your yard and gardens—so don't bag up those valuable nutrients and abandon them at the curb for the landfill.

9. The Goiania Accident in which 2 men stole an x-ray device from an abandoned radio therapy building, then dismantled and sold the radioactive source to a nearby scrap yard whom then put the glowing material on display leading to 4 deaths.