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Top 10 Strangest Patents

 
Patents can be a strange brew.

Mixed in with all the high-tech devices, life-saving inventions and world-changing technology are a bunch of really strange things. From the thoroughly strange to the completely unnecessary, each of these patents was once the brainchild of a human being.

Now, you always knew humans were strange, so why would you think the things we think up would be any different?

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