Originally, Nintendo was a playing card manufacturer.
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The United States produces enough plastic film annually to cover the entire state of Texas.
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Whale oil was used in automobile transmissions as late as 1973.
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Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page have expressed their desire to see the search engine become artificial intelligence itself. To achieve that goal, they created the highly-protected “X lab.”
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A Citreon 2CV with an oil leak once travelled 500 miles through Italy after its gearbox was filled with bananas!
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In the early 1960's, Porsche commercially manufactured farm tractors.
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The life boat was patented in 1845!
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Scientists in the UK are creating a smartphone app that will enable users to test for STDs.
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