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Top 10 amazingly profitable things that no one saw coming
Some of the most successful companies and products in the world have their roots in an old garage or in a strange idea, in which nobody wants to invest. But history, in some cases, has shown us that the most humble and crazy beginnings became in excellent success stories. These are the 10 amazingly profitable things that not one saw coming
Number 10. – Terracycle. 
Did you ever think that picking up cigarette butts could make you a millionaire? Well, Terracycle did it. It’s the first company in the world that succeeded in this strange task. With more than 38 million butts collected, they extract acetate from this product to build plastic objects such as pallets or ramps used to transport merchandise.
Number 09. – AntennaBalls
In 1997, Jason Wall, inspired by the old emojis, decided to design some smiley balls to place them on the car antennas; an idea as crazy as profitable. After much effort, AntennaBalls not only get into the great Wallmart chain of stores, selling more than 500,000 balls per month, also turned its creator into a millionaire businessman who sells his product in several countries around the world.
Number 08. – BoxCycle
With the establishment of the Internet as a sales channel we can find a long list of online stores for packaging and used items. For this reason, in the full success of the businesses that sell cardboard boxes, BoxCycle appears a marketplace of used ones. There you can find not only cardboard boxes, but all kinds of boxes that are no longer used and are put on sale for those who want to give it a new use.
Number 07. – Booster Fuels
Technology over the years has put at the reach of a click services that we thought were impossible to obtain. Many of them are so incredible that we never imagine that they could really exist and Booster Fuels showed us the opposite. This is a mobile gas station company via app that fills your tank while you work, study or do some other activity. It also includes the partial or complete washing of your car.
Number 06. – IamElemental
Superhero toys for girls is the best way to describe IamElemental. The founders of this brand defend that they are "the first super heroes designed especially for girls, with the aim of teaching them concepts such as the use of power and the use of intelligence". In fact, the revolutionary thing about the toy is that the doll is created to reinforce together with the girls, through the games, the different values that they want to transmit to them.
Number 05. – Smiley Face
The simplest idea can, really make you millionaire and this was achieved by Bernard and Murria Spain, who, in 1963, drew a smiley face next to the phrase Have a nice day. By registering this great idea, the madness of the smileys began, which has been used in all types of merchandise, generating more than $500 million dollars per year. 
Number 04. – IFart – Fart Machine
In 2008, at the height of smartphones, the developer Joel Comm decided to launch one of the most absurd applications ever seen: Fart Machine. Despite the simple idea, Joel decided to sell his app for $ 0.99 and include a list of different sounds according to the quality of the fart chosen by the user. In 2009, iFart already had more than 350,000 downloads and billed $ 10,000 per day.
Number 03. – Pet Rock
Is it possible that a simple joke between friends could generate millions of dollars in sales? Pet Rock was born like a crazy idea that Gary Dahl made true. Sell a rock as a pet for $ 3.95 along with a care manual, became a millionaire business, in which 10,000 units of this product generated more than 15 million dollars in sales for its creator Gar Dahl.
Number 02. – Google
Students Larry Page and Sergey Brin rented a garage in Menlo Park, California, in 1998, to serve as a base of operations as they developed web algorithms for an online search engine. It didn’t take long for their idea to become one of the most profitable and successful companies of all time. Google is the most visited website and its creators are some of the richest businessmen in the world.
Number 01. – The million dollar website
A young Alex Tew, to earn quick money, couldn’t think in a better idea than create the million dollar website, an innovative site made up of millions of tiny banners that he sold for one dollar per unit. It might seem absurd, but his idea was so extremely profitable, that he started selling hundreds of banners per company, generating more than $ 1.03 million dollars in a very short time.

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