This month marks 80 years since one of the most influential yet underrated inventions burst onto the market in New York on ...

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June 10 is National Ballpoint Pen Day (as well as, for some reason, National Iced Tea Day). The inventor of the ballpoint pen was Hungarian journalist Laszlo Biro, who was also a hypnotist, racecar ...

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