In 1832, in Paisley, Scotland the first municipal water filtration works was opened.

The original IBM-PCs, that had hard drives, referred to the hard drives as Winchester drives. This is due to the fact that the original Winchester drive had a model number of 3030. This is, of course, a Winchester firearm.

The largest living structure on Earth is the Great Barrier Reef. Found in Australia, it is over 2000 kilometres long.

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