Did You Know...
...that while attempting to develop a super strong glue, 3M employee Spencer Silver accidentally developed a glue that was so weak it would barely hold two pieces of paper together? However, his colleague Art Fry needed the glue. Fry sang with his church choir and marked the pages of his hymnal with small scraps of paper that often fell out. He used Silver's glue to hold the papers in place. Today we call this invention Post-it Notes.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5346712 | Methods for inhibiting white blush on processed carrots A method for inhibiting the formation of white blush on processed carrots, comprising processing tile carrots for consumption and exposing the processed carrots to a solution of citric acid and L-cysteine hydrochloride, in weight percentage ratios ranging... | 09/13/1994 |
