Originally, Nintendo was a playing card manufacturer.
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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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Surgeons who grew up playing video games make 37 percent fewer mistakes.
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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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The ball on top of a flagpole is called a 'truck'.
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Attics were invented in Attica.
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Whale oil was used in automobile transmissions as late as 1973.
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