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    The oil used by jewelers to lubricate clocks and watches costs about $3,000 a gallon.
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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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    Kleenex tissues were originally used as filters in gas masks.
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    More steel in the United States is used to make bottle caps than to manufacture automobile bodies.
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    Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis had an online multiplayer mode.
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    Hitachi's ATM that Sterilizes and Irons Bills
    In the mid-90s, Hitachi produced an ATM that sterilized bills by heating them to 200 degrees Celsius, then ironed them before dispensing.
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    The UK Has a Bus Service That Is Powered by Poop
    In the UK, there's a bus service that's powered by poop.
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