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TIL The synthesizer that Ferris Bueller uses to simulate his realistic-sounding coughs is an E-MU Emulator II, which at the time went for around $8,000. That’s equivalent to over $17,000 in today’s dollars. Having said that, if he were to have traded it in, he definitely could have afforded a car.

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