Flat bottom bags you make grocery world go round.

From Smithsonian Magazine:

"Not only did Knight file for a patent, she rigorously defended her ownership of the bag machine idea in a legal battle with a fraud who had copied her. Having gotten a glimpse of Knight’s machine in its development phase, a man named Charles Annan decided he would try to pull the rug out from under her and claim the creation as his own.

This turned out to be extremely ill-advised, as Knight, who spent a large chunk of her hard-earned money on quality legal counsel, handed Annan a humiliating courtroom drubbing. In response to his bigoted argument that no woman could be capable of designing such a machine, Knight presented her copious, meticulously detailed hand-drawn blueprints.

Annan, who had no such evidence to offer himself, was quickly found to be a moneygrubbing charlatan. After the dispute was resolved, Knight received her rightful patent, in 1871."

From National Inventors Hall of Fame (inducted in 2006):

"Margaret Knight invented a machine that could automatically cut, fold, and glue flat-bottomed paper bags. Knight's invention revolutionized the paper bag industry by replacing the work of thirty people with one machine.

Born in York, Maine, Knight went to work in a New Hampshire textile mill following her father's death when she was still a child. After witnessing a serious accident caused by a malfunctioning loom, Knight was inspired to create her first invention, a safety device that became a standard fixture on looms. That device was the first of many technical innovations that would touch a wide range of industries.

Before Knight invented her paper-bag machine, flat-bottomed bags could only be made manually and at great expense. With her innovation, flat-bottomed bags could be mass manufactured, replacing less useful v-shaped bags. Her invention was used worldwide. An updated variation of her machine was still in use at the end of the twentieth century.

Knight founded the Eastern Paper Bag Company in Hartford, Connecticut. Between 1870 and 1915, the inventor was granted patents for at least twenty-six inventions, ranging from a window frame, to a sole-cutting machine for shoemaking, to a compound rotary engine."

I don't watch the olympics generally but id definately watch them fuck

Aww netball is not an olympic sport i guess ill settle for the volleyball team

In the Pacific Theater of WWII there was a plan to capture a bunch of bats that were living in attics in Tokyo and attach incendiary devices to them, so when the bats returned to their attacks they would set them on fire and burn Tokyo to the ground. The only reason this plan didn't go through was because we decided to nuke Hiroshima and Nagasaki instead

Thanks for that. I love how even though it’s been several years, reading the episode plot brings me back

just don't run over it with a lawnmower.

That's a cock

Need a banana for scale

It's pretty rough but we manage somehow.

People just don’t realize how badly,and how RECENTLY countless diseases rampaged thru populations before antibiotics and VACCINES.People NEVER died of old age at 35.Close to half of people born didn’t survive to adulthood,just a few generations ago.Vaccines!

I haven't watched that in years, I'm surprised I remember it

Yup, the episode Fidelity.

She had African Trypanosomiasis.

I had a cairn terrier that had no mercy for baby bunnies, I know they are all technically babies but they were always so small. Also mice, moles and frogs. Great gift to leave at the back door.

I was thinking of the episode where the woman was sleeping a lot and worked at a fancy pants restaurant as the meat cutter. As I think on it it wasn't tularemia in that episode either, she had a sleeping sickness because slept with her husband's best friend, IIRC

And ordered not to use them due to quarantine guidelines, lol.

Haha right? First time I heard of this was a few hours ago when CN put out his newest video

Not surprising. A bunch of hot, athletic people, often single because of the demands of their training.

FUCKKKKKKK. I thought i was out of the woods. Shit

The Riv' is certainly weird.

Watch Titanic in widescreen, Jack gets on the door but it sinks, he was too heavy.

...Are they trying to claim that DEATH BY LAWNMOWER has become part of a disease's life cycle, now?!?

r/murderbuns

???

Profit.

And yet the world keeps spinning

For what it's worth, I noticed it the first time I heard it. The original was in a piano instruction book that my sister had in the 70's. 🙂