TIL that Lonnie Johnson, the inventor of the Super Soaker, is a former NASA nuclear engineer. He used the millions he made from the toy to fund research into the "Johnson Thermo-Electrochemical Converter," a device that turns heat directly into electricity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lonnie_Johnson_(inventor)
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