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** Early products included cheese cutters, meat choppers, and scales.
** This is actually the case with many modern big companies specializing in modern hardware and software. For example Nokia is one of the biggest producers of cellphones in the world. It was founded in 1865. Or how about Nintendo? Surely the company that gave us the NES and Mario cannot be all that old? Perhaps from the 1970's? Nope, founded in 1889.
* ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20120105051838/http://www.kipling.org.uk/poems_junkandhow.htm The Junk and the Dhow]'' by [[Rudyard Kipling]], basically, gently covers a lot of proudly reinvented bicycles with this trope and then dances on it.
* Pythagorean Theorem was an already known fact long before Pythagoras' time.
* Not only was the true shape of the Earth known since ancient times, the actual ''size'' was known as well (about 25,000 miles), and not due to Columbus. In fact, Columbus' expedition was rejected several times because he had severely ''underestimated'' the distance to Asia, and his potential patrons knew it.
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