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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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    Wind Turbine Trees
    Wind Turbine Trees
    After noticing the wind rustling and turning the leaves on trees, French entrepreneur Jérôme Michaud-Larivière designed wind turbine trees that could provide clean energy for urban settings.
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    In the early 1960's, Porsche commercially manufactured farm tractors.
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    Castor oil is used as a lubricant in jet planes.
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    A fully loaded supertanker traveling at normal speed takes a least twenty minutes to stop.
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    A small airplane can fly backwards.
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    Thomas Alva Edison patented almost 1,300 inventions in his lifetime!
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    The first hard drive available for the Apple II had a capacity of only 5 megabytes.
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