Originally, Nintendo was a playing card manufacturer.
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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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Thomas Alva Edison patented almost 1,300 inventions in his lifetime!
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The first alarm clock could only ring at 4 a.m.
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Kleenex tissues were originally used as filters in gas masks.
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Surgeons who grew up playing video games make 37 percent fewer mistakes.
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Henry Ford produced the model T only in black because the black paint available at the time was the fastest to dry.
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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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