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#1 (OF 10) SWEDEN PROTECTS IT’S WIENERS, AT ALL COSTS

What do you know about Sweden? You know that they produce seriously copious amounts of tall, sexy blondes. All those sexy blondes runnin around causing the scent of their Swede-beavers to ride the wind and catch the attention of Swede-boners. The country couldn’t simply stand by and watch it’s country literally f**k itself to death! Nope, they implemented “condom ambulances” to distribute rubbers to Swede-Bros in what they describe as “promising situations.”

#9 SCOTCHGUARD

When 3M chemist Patsy Sherman was working in the lab during 1952, she noticed something peculiar. When a bit of fluorochemical rubber spilled onto a co-workers shoe, it would not come off, and also did not change the color of the shoe where it landed. It was noted that the area that was affected was then able to repel water, oil and other liquids without damaging the material. After teaming up with fellow inventor Samuel Smith, her work ultimately became known as Scotchguard.

#8 CIRCULAR SAW

This one is a departure from some of the inventions we might think as benefiting women more than men. What’s more manly that a fierce, screaming circular saw tearing through wood? Well, a lot of things, but you get the idea. After Tabitha Babbitt observed lumber workers using the old two-man saw she thought making the blade circular would be a better idea. She played with the idea herself by making her own circular blade and attaching it to her spinning wheel! Unfortunately, the Shaker community she was a part of did not approve of the idea of applying for a patent, but they were quick to use her invention to make things easier for themselves.

#7 LIQUID PAPER

They say that necessity is the mother of invention, and we’re beginning to see how various problems that were most often encountered by women were solved by enterprising women who knew there had to be a better way. Since typists were once mostly women, it should not be surprising that a woman named Bette Nesmith Graham corrected her typing mistakes by covering them with white tempera paint. After toiling in her kitchen to perfect the formula, she patented Liquid Paper in 1958. She later sold her company to Gillette in 1979 for a whopping $47.5 million!

#6 DISHWASHER

Here again we have a woman that came up with a brilliant idea to help make what many considered a “woman’s job” a whole lot easier. Believe it or not, the dishwasher was first patented back in 1886 after Josephine Cochrane came up with the idea by combining a wire rack, a boiler, a wheel and high pressure water.

#5 DISPOSABLE DIAPERS

You don’t have to dwell on it too long to see how this one makes perfect sense. Let’s face it, when it comes to diapers, it’s the women that traditionally had to deal with one of the darker sides of child rearing most of the time. Marion Donovan’s idea was to make clean-up a bit easier by covering the diaper with part of a shower curtain for her initial design. Donovan hit the jackpot when she sold her idea to Keko Corporation for a cool $1 million. A few years later she came up with the entirely disposable version.

#4 WINDSHIELD WIPERS

Although it’s hard to believe, drivers back in 1903 thought it would be safer to drive with rain or snow obscuring their vision than to periodically activate a lever to operate manual windshield wipers. Mary Anderson’s original invention was improved upon by another female inventor in 1917 who came up with a roller-operated automatic version. Still, it took until 1920 before automobile makers realized their benefits, and Cadillac began including them with every car they produced.

#3 MONOPOLY

It would probably be nearly impossible to account for all the hours people have enjoyed playing this legendary board game. It was originally called The Landlord’s Game back in 1904 when it was patented, and later became known as Monopoly when Charles Darrow reworked the idea and sold it to Parker Brothers some 30 years late

#2 KEVLAR

Considering all the safety devices that have been made with this super strong material (including bullet-proof vests for police), a great many lives have likely been saved by this invention. The patent for this amazing material was granted in 1966 when chemist Stephanie Kwolek came up with the formula for Kevlar back in 1966 while working to improve fiber for use in automobile tires.

Yes, when it comes to inventions, men seem to get all the credit. Alexander Graham Bell, The Wright Brothers, Thomas Edison, and the list goes on and on. Well, there are quite a few women in history who have come up with useful inventions as well. Here’s a good opportunity for all the ladies to bask in the knowledge of some things that were invented by women.

#1 PAPER BAG

Think of how activities like grocery shopping were improved by the invention of the paper bag. Putting all those items from the market in a box or some other rigid container would have made them much more difficult to transport in the car, or even carry home on the street. A cotton mill worker named Margaret Knight invented a machine to revolutionize the paper bag by making them flat with a square bottom way back in 1868.

10. HUGH GRANT

The famous Bridget Jones star has a Golden Globe and a BAFTA in his kitty, but also what he owns is an English Literature from the prestigious University of Oxford.

9. HUGH JACKMAN

The famous Wolverine star has a Communications degree from the Sydney’s University of Technology and thus is a qualified journalist.

8. NATALIE PORTMAN

The Academy Award winning actress is fluent with English, Japanese, French and Hebrew. Apart from being one of the most beautiful actresses of Hollywood, she holds a BA in Psychology degree from University of Harvard.

7. DAVID DUCHOVNY

This star from the hugely successful TV series X-Files and Californication has a couple of Ivy League degrees. He has a Bachelor’s of Arts in English Literature from Princeton University and a Master’s in the same from Yale University. He’s not done yet, it’s reported that he’s perusing his PhD.

6. KEN JEONG

You won’t believe that Mr. Chow from the Hangover series is a licensed medical professional. He did his internal medicine residency in the New Orleans and also practices often in California.

5. LISA KUDROW

She played the crazy Phoebe in the crazily super hit TV show Friends. Lisa Kudrow did her Bachelor’s in Biology at Vassar College in USA.

4. ROWAN ATKINSON

He famously played the half-wit Mr. Bean. On contrary to his TV life, he holds a Master’s Electrical Engineering degree from the Oxford University.

3. DOLPH LUNDGREN

He’s more than the actor who starred in the hugely successful action flick The Expendables. He has a degree in Chemistry from the Washington State University and Chemical Engineering from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. To put a ring on it, he also did a Master’s in Chemical Engineering from the University of Sydney.

2. ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER

This man is a perfect example of macho with brains. After he won the Mr. Junior bodybuilding title in 1965, the Terminator and the Conan the Barbarian star went to college and did his Bachelor’s in Business and International Economics from the University of Wisconsin.

Some celebrities are more than just the pretty face. Yes they need it for the life they lead, but some also have a beautiful mind too and have very good qualifications apart from their acting prowess. Let’s see some of the Hollywood’s brightest people.

JAMES FRANCO
James Franco holds an English Bachelor’s from UCLA and also a Masters in Fine Arts from Columbia University which makes him one of the most qualified actors in Hollywood. He’s not yet done yet, he’s perusing a PhD in English from Yale.

It's been sold

Following her successful traditional wedding held earlier in the year, actress, Mona Lisa Chinda, has wrapped up plans for a society wedding which will hold in far away Greece in the month of May.

According to an insider who spoke to Entertainer: “Right now Mona Lisa is the happiest woman under the sun. She and her husband, Victor Tonye Coker, are so in love they can’t get enough of each other. Remember that in February they had their traditional wedding in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, which attracted the crème de la crème of Nigerian society.

“Now they are set to raise the bar as they have concluded plans for a fairy tale wed­ding which will hold in Athens, Greece, later in the year. They chose Greece because of its tourism sites. Expect a blast wedding,” the source concluded

Source: sunnews online

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