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Duct Tape

Secretly Incredibly Fascinating

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The Myth of Vesta Stout

The myth is that a US World War II factory worker who was also a mother of troops, like invented cloth waterproof tape. Then the myth says that she wrote a letter to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt because her bank, he didn't exist. And Jesus himself came down and said, low thou shalt use this duct tape and you will call it duct tape, not duct tape. What really happened is a lot more ordinary and again did not invent duct tape, did not make it a popular product.

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