The word dinosaur comes from the Greek language and means 'terrible lizard'. The word was coined by English paleontologist Richard Owen in 1842 and was meant to refer to Dinosaurs impressive size rather than their scary appearance.

Wham-O manufactured twenty-thousand hula-hoops a day at the peak of hula-hoop popularity in 1958.

One of Hewlett Packard's first ideas was an automatic urinal flusher.

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