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    In the early 1960's, Porsche commercially manufactured farm tractors.
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    SnapChat
    SnapChat
    SnapChat was originally intended to be an app for sending nude pictures and was called 'Picaboo'.
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    All GPS units sold in the civilian market have to be programmed to deactivate themselves if they detect they are travelling faster than 1200 MPH or are above 60,000 feet in altitude to prevent them being used in intercontinental ballistic missiles.
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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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    Jumbo jets use 4,000 gallons of fuel to take off.
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    The Queen Mary - the grandest vessel of her day - had many of her vital components made by car manufacturer Skoda!
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    More than a billion transistors are manufactured every second.
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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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