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Your heating and cooling system may not be a fun topic to tackle, but you can always find interesting facts by taking a glimpse of its history.

8 Fun facts probably do not know yet about Heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems:

1. It was in 1902 when Willis Carrier designed the first A/C unit just to provide a convenient indoor atmosphere in his publishing house to prevent his papers from expanding and contracting.

2. The first heating system was used by the Romans which they named “hypocaust”. It sends heat through the walls and floors of rich Roman homes.

3. In 1913, Charles Gates built the first fully air-conditioned home in Minneapolis but sadly, he died just before he experienced to live in the mansion.

4. The amount of energy used to power the entire continent of Africa is equivalent to the amount of energy consumed for air conditioning alone in the U.S.

5. Air conditioning has greatly contributed to making movie theaters as one of the most successful businesses back in the early twentieth century.

6. The formulation of important medicines and antidotes is made possible with the cool temperature inside the laboratories.

7.Studies conducted by American researchers show that the chances of dying due to extremely hot temperatures have decreased by more than 80% over the last 50 years in the advent of air conditioning.

8. There are approximately 300,000 miles or more of natural gas pipelines in the U.S. If you were to weld every single one of them together, the new pipeline could reach the distance of the moon and beyond.

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