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One Proven Thing That Will Help You Live Longer & How Everyday Things Get Made

Something You Should Know

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The Two-Litre Soda Bottle

The inventor of the two-liter soda bottle was Andrew Wyeth's brother. He made that plastic bottle by taking a lump of plastic, making it molten and then blowing air through the top so that it filled the mold quickly. Long before we had theories of elasticity, engineers built cathedrals where they didn't know mathematics or material properties.

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