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Why Dutch windmills pumped water, not flour

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Those picturesque blades were not initially erected to grind flour or look pretty on postcards. They were massive, desperate survival machines designed to physically hurl sea water out of flooded fields, ensuring the entire lowland country didn't literally drown.

Why Dutch windmills pumped water, not flour
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