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Looking for a Replacement Rubber for the U.S. Army in 1943, a General Electric Engineer Literally Created a Toy that Sold More than 300 Million Copies.

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There is a tacit rule in the world of scientific research: the greatest finds are not always the ones we were looking for. Take this colorful paste, enclosed in its plastic egg, which generations of children have kneaky, stretched and crushed on comic strips to copy the ink. Few people [...]
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There is a tacit rule in the world of scientific research: the greatest finds are not always the ones we were looking for. Take this colorful paste, enclosed in its plastic egg, which generations of children have kneaky, stretched and crushed on comic strips to copy the ink. Few people [...]

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SciencePost broke the news on Monday, October 12, 2026.
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