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The zipper took 30 years to catch on

Patented in the 1890s and refined in 1913, the zipper only became common after the 1930s, when it was marketed on children's clothes as a way to teach self-reliance.

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Inventions

The ballpoint pen was designed by a newspaper editor

Laszlo Biro noticed newsprint ink dried instantly and paired thick ink with a rotating ball in the 1930s, ending the age of leaky fountain pens.

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Inventions

QWERTY was designed around mechanical jams

Keys were spread out so common letter pairs would not clash on early typewriters. The layout outlived the machines it was made for.

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Sports

The classic football is 32 panels of geometry

Twenty white hexagons and twelve black pentagons form a truncated icosahedron, the shape that best approximates a sphere from flat pieces.

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Sports

The five Olympic ring colours were chosen to cover every flag

Blue, yellow, black, green and red on white included at least one colour from every national flag of 1913.

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