The Origin of Band-Aid.

Yay for klutziness - it was the reason band aid was invented. mental_floss got the story:

IT ALL STARTED: in 1920, when Dickson wed his sweetheart, Josephine, and quickly discovered she wasn’t exactly Little Mary Homemaker. Turns out, she had a rather unnerving habit of kitchen klutziness. Every day, Dickson would come home to find another cut or burn that needed patching up. He was sympathetic at first, but as time passed, the score increased to Kitchen: 500, Josephine: 0, and he grew more and more frustrated.

And so, Johnson & Johnson employee Earle Dickson came up with a little something called Band-Aids. Here's the story: Link (Image Credit: Nathan Gibbs [Flickr])


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