Too right. Walter Hunt is credited with the invention of the safety pin and was issued a patent for it in 1849. Yet this
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Was being widely used throughout the Roman word as early as 200 BCE.
Boru
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Was being widely used throughout the Roman word as early as 200 BCE.
Boru
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