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The storm predictor powered by 12 leeches
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Forget massive radar dishes; early weather prediction relied entirely on heavily stressed worms. An ambitious inventor carefully designed an elaborate glass barometer completely filled with twelve live leeches. He genuinely theorized that atmospheric pressure drops preceding bad weather would totally agitate the creatures, causing them to violently ring tiny attached bells.
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