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Squirt Gun Hero

  • February 26, 2012
  • By KIDS DISCOVER

Engineer Lonnie G. Johnson was trying to create a heat pump that used water instead of chlorofluorocarbons, when he accidentally invented something a lot more fun — the SuperSoaker® water gun!

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