Fred's Fun Fact: Bubble Wrap As Wallpaper

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
A Fread show is on Fread's Fun Fact Freds fun.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
So much. Okay, guys, did you know? Did you know
that bubble wrap was originally invented in nineteen fifty seven
by two engineers who sealed two shower curtains together, creating
a smattering of air bubbles. And it was initially intend intended,
initially intended to be wallpaper. Can you imagine if bubble

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wrap was I mean, I would just like go people's
houses sliding down a wallpaper. It would'd be crazy. But
that's originally what they wanted to do was sell bubble
wrap as wallpaper. The two shower curtains stuck together, they
realized their product could be used for protection and packaging,
and then they founded the company in nineteen sixty. Uh.
The inventors showed the product to IBM, who had just

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launched the first mass produced computer, and they decided I
did to be the first client. Uh And the company
still exists today, by the way.

Speaker 1 (01:05):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (01:06):
So yeah, that's how bubble wrap was invented. That's I'm
gonna use that next time. I'm gonna like the bar,
you know, do my little bar lives I like to do.
I'm gonna be like, yeah, oh yeah, you know, Grandpa
invented them bubble wrap. There you go. Yeah, just trying
to take two shower curtains make a wallpaper. That's all
he was trying to do, you know. And then they
sold the IBM man. Yeah, here we are. Now he

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lives at the bar. Yeah you probably. I don't do
this anymore, but when I used to wak roll with
my buddies, we would throw If we met a group
of girls, we would just throw something out there and
then everybody had to go with it like a live
It'd be like, oh yeah, his dad invented the big
lighter or whatever, and then it should just go really
no kidding, and then everyone had to make it up.
There's a lot of fun, you know, you know what

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I mean. I do it every day. I was gonna say,
do we like yeah, right, exactly exactly more Fread show
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