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Pollution is one of a most serious problems facing humanity
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for much of pollution is caused of objects
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and activities that benefit mankind. Two-thirds in
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Delhi’s appalling atmospheric pollution is caused on vehicles.
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The Band-Aid was invent in New Jersey.
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Dickson was fretted as his wife Josephine, cut
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herself again and again on working in the
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kitchen. One day while he was wrapping his
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wound once again on a bulky bandage of gauze
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and tape, he was struck by an idea. He put some
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gauze on a strip of the medical tape and the
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Band-Aid was born. Billion of cuts and scrapes
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later the Band-Aid is celebrating it’s 75th birthday.
