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Old January 12th 04, 03:28 PM
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Default Velcro and fire-proof pajamas?

Now you know that it was sold to us by a Vulcan that had crash landed on Earth.
Was shown on Enterprise. ;


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VELCRO was invented in the late 1940s by George de Mestral and he applied
for the first patent in Switzerland in 1951. The story goes he was out
walking with his dog and wondered why burrs (aka cockleburrs) stuck to his
clothing and to the dog; his analysis of the phenomenon and experimentation
gave us what is known as "hook and loop tapes" under the trademark VELCRO.




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