TIL the Band-Aid exists because one man's wife kept injuring herself in the kitchen.

[todayilearned@noc.social]

TIL the Band-Aid exists because one man's wife kept injuring herself in the kitchen. In 1920, Johnson & Johnson employee Earle Dickson rigged up gauze on surgical tape so his accident-prone wife Josephine could bandage her own cuts and burns. J&J turned it into a product.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Band-Aid
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