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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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    The oil used by jewelers to lubricate clocks and watches costs about $3,000 a gallon.
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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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    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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    In the early 1960's, Porsche commercially manufactured farm tractors.
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    The ball on top of a flagpole is called a 'truck'.
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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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    Thomas Alva Edison patented almost 1,300 inventions in his lifetime!
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