Giraffe Monday
June 9
Photo facts…
Group of giraffe is standing or moving across savannah. The forest and the lake stand on background.
Giraffe Video…
wild-african-giraffe
The following facts came from The Fact Site.
10th June – Ballpoint Pen Day.
The original ballpoint pen was devised in 1888 by John J. Loud. However this first incarnation of everyone’s favorite chew toy was full of problems and the patent held by Loud eventually lapsed.
It was not until 1938, when Hungarian newspaper editor Laszlo Biro got fed up of ink smudges and refilling fountain pens, and enlisted his brother, a chemist, to help him come up with the perfect kind of ink to couple with the ball and socket design, that the world at large was introduced to the humble biro.
When ballpoints came to America, in 1945, they were priced at $12.50 each.