stackyFACTSEver wonder why your phone and calculator hate each other? Engineers deliberately flipped the phone keypad in the 1960s because people who were fast at using calculators dialed too quickly for the analog switching equipment to register. They intentionally ruined your muscle memory just to protect their fragile hardware.
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