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    Jumbo jets use 4,000 gallons of fuel to take off.
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    Whale oil was used in automobile transmissions as late as 1973.
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    Windmills always turn anti-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland!
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    The first hard drive available for the Apple II had a capacity of only 5 megabytes.
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    Game Boy Inventor
    Game Boy Inventor
    The inventor of the Game Boy, Gunpei Yokoi, was originally Nintendo’s janitor and maintenance man.
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    Game Boy Uses More Computing Power Than First Lunar Mission
    The technology of a single Game Boy exceeds all the computing power that was used to put the first man on moon in 1969.
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    The life boat was patented in 1845!
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    The American Automobile Association was founded for the sole purpose of warning motorists of police speed traps!
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