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    From blood banks and barcodes to the Super Soaker and the pizza box, here are the fascinating stories behind inventions that changed the world.

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    • The Stories Behind 20 Inventions That Changed the World https://t.co/Ri1N8bnKY7 🌉Suspension bridge 🚽Toilets 🎧Walkman 💊The Pill 🩸Blood banks 🛰️Space Telescopes 🍕Pizza box 🏥X-rays ⭕️Duct tape 📦Barcodes 🚗Seat belts 👩‍🍳Microwave 🥫Can opener ❄️A/C 📻Radio 🐠Aquariums 💡Etc

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    Juneteenth has been celebrated since enslaved people in Texas were told about their freedom on June 19, 1865. Here’s what you need to know about the holiday.

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    To visit Google’s patent website is to lose yourself in a black hole of totally weird wannabe inventions—a surprising number of which are for your feline friends. From toys meant to encourage exercise to systems that deliver live birds for food, here are 12 really weird cat patents. 1. “Method of Exercising a

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    • #NUSLPatentLaw While searching for one of my favorites, "Method of exercising a cat" (U.S. Pat. No. 5,443,036), I stumbled upon this: 12 Cat-Related Patents That Are Really Quite Bizarre https://t.co/CHEPLDuGo1