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The journalist who invented the ballpoint pen
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László Bíró was utterly exhausted by his fountain pens endlessly smudging ink all over his paper. He noticed that the ink used in printing presses dried incredibly fast, so he shoved a tiny metal ball into the tip of a tube to create a smooth, leak-free writing device. His frustration with dirty hands essentially revolutionized modern note-taking forever.
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