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Podcast: Cool Weird Awesome with Brady Carlson
Episode: Walter Hunt Invented The Modern Safety Pin To Pay Off A $15 Debt
Description: Today in 1849, the US issued a patent for one of the smallest big ideas of the century: the safety pin. And a big factor behind that little invention was paying off a big debt. Plus: today in 1921, the birthday of Robert Wade, a chess master who once proved that even top notch players can have a bad day. Three Millennia of Safety Pins (The Atlantic)Worst chess defeat (Generalist Academy)Pin yourself to our Patreon page so you can support our show