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The Bread Clip Was Built for the Machine, Not for You

The little plastic square on a bag of bread has a famous origin story. In 1952 an engineer from Yakima, Washington named Floyd Paxton was on a flight and couldn’t close an opened bag of peanuts. He took an expired credit card from his wallet and used a penknife to carve a notch just wide enough for …