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5 Inventions That Started Out as Something Else 

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The first post office in the U.S. was established in a tavern.

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6 Facts About Baseball Trailblazer Jackie Robinson

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6 Potato Facts That Are Too Hot To Handle

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5 Animals With the Biggest Brains for Their Size

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Why Human Hair Is Limited to a Handful of Colors

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Seals can get seasick if you put them on a boat.

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Is the Fruit From “The White Lotus” Actually Deadly?

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  1. The Pacific Ocean was named because Ferdinand Magellan thought it was “pacific,” or peaceful.

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  2. Credit cards were invented because a businessman forgot his wallet.

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  3. The name for a single spaghetti noodle is “spaghetto.”

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  4. The first item ever sold on eBay was a broken laser pointer.

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  5. The first Gmail was associated with Garfield the cat.

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