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    Whale oil was used in automobile transmissions as late as 1973.
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    The electric chair was invented by a dentist!
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    Car airbags kill 1 person for every 22 lives that they save.
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    It would take twenty new mid-size cars to generate the same amount of pollution that a mid-size 1960's car did.
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    The first hard drive available for the Apple II had a capacity of only 5 megabytes.
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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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    Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page have expressed their desire to see the search engine become artificial intelligence itself. To achieve that goal, they created the highly-protected “X lab.”
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    Attics were invented in Attica.
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