The paper clip was invented, perhaps as far back as the 13th century, to clip papers. Since then, it has been one of the most useful of all-purpose tools. Every office worker and housewife has taken advantage of this fact for years, but it took the Germans to make a definitive study. Alarmed at the rate at which its clips were disappearing, a Munich manufacturing firm sent spies out to trace the fate of 100,000 of them.
The findings: only one out of five was ever used to clip one piece of paper to another. Of the 80,000 others, 19,413...
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