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« on: July 19, 2013, 05:02:24 AM »


The good people of Canada are responsible for many inventions you use every day. Especially if you're someone who plays Trivial Pursuit in a Wonderbra while eating peanut butter smeared on McIntosh apples.
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« Reply #1 on: July 19, 2013, 05:04:02 AM »
1. PEANUT BUTTER



Montreal pharmacist Marcellus Gilmore Edson envisioned his nutty ointment-like product, patented in 1884, as a food option for people who couldn't chew. Or for, you know, everyone.
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« Reply #2 on: July 19, 2013, 05:06:08 AM »
2. THE WONDERBRA



Leave it to our great neighbors to the north to invent one of the most popular push-up bras ever. Montreal's Canadian Lady Corset Company first licensed the trademark "Wonder-bra" in 1939, and then renamed the company Wonderbra in 1961.
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« Reply #3 on: July 19, 2013, 05:07:01 AM »
3. TRIVIAL PURSUIT



Here's one for the orange category: What board game was invented in 1979 by Scott Abbott, a Montreal sports editor, and Chris Haney, a photo editor, when they couldn't find all their Scrabble tiles? [And yes, that's Rudy Giuliani and the Pets.com sock puppet in the photo.]
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« Reply #4 on: July 19, 2013, 05:08:05 AM »
4. THE ODOMETER



Road trips were never the same after 1854, when Nova Scotia inventor Samuel McKeen created a device that measured distance with every revolution of a carriage wheel. Though to be fair, everyone from Vitruvius to Ben Franklin was also working on this one.
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« Reply #5 on: July 19, 2013, 05:08:53 AM »
5. THE ROTARY SNOWPLOW



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A Toronto dentist named Dr. J.W. Elliot first conceived the idea of a snowplow to clean up train tracks. The snowmobile and snowblower were also born in Canada. But the Zamboni ice resurfacer? California, man.
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