TIL about Nicholas D. McKay who, in 1955, while chaperoning a school dance, wrapped masking tape around a toilet paper tube affixed to a coat hanger to remove lint from his tuxedo. A year later, he founded the Helmac Products Corporation to manufacture his new invention: the lint roller.
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