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* Ever since more restaurants started offering gluten-free food, many consumers have viewed it as a new trend in "health food". Truth be told, however, unless you actually have celiac disease, gluten free food has no additional health benefits. In fact, it might actually make you ''gain'' weight.
* Game controllers are cheap, easy to use and are familiar to younger generations. This is precisely the reason why the US military utilised them for controlling things like UAV drones as it would be easier to train rookie soldiers using something they already had experience with (which has unsurprisingly led to some controversy as some found this rather video-gamey way of killing enemy combatants ''[[Call of Duty]]'' style in [[Real Life]] to be of extremely poor taste). In 2023 it has been pointed out that the ''Titan'' submersible involved in an [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Titan_submersible_incident incident] where they went missing whilst attempting to explore the remains of the RMS ''Titanic'' used an off-the-shelf Logitech G F710 game controller, a $40 joypad they might have snatched off GameStop or some other electronics store and modified for submersible use.
* In early 2023, an Australian retailer of "adult products" called Wild Secrets [https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/weird-news/sex-doll-firm-sells-out-29616054 completely sold out] of their stock of a particularly realistic sex doll -- because it was realistic enough to fool the traffic cameras that enforce certain "car pool only" lanes that require that there be at least two persons in a car using them.
 
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